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UNC Professor’s Contract Battle | Raleigh News
A federal judge sided with UNC-Chapel Hill, dismissing a lawsuit by economics professor Larry Chavis who claimed retaliation for not renewing his contract — a decision rooted in poor teaching evaluations, not his criticism of the university. Despite secret classroom recordings made in 2024 sparking faculty backlash and the school scrapping its recording policy, Chavis, a vocal Lumbee tribal member and longtime critic of UNC’s diversity record, plans to appeal, hoping to set a major precedent in workplace discrimination law. Now a visiting professor at Kalamazoo College, he’s determined to…
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