Jury Awards Professor $1.3M in Age Bias Case [on Loubna Skalli-Hanna]

American University discriminated against a former professor on the basis of her age when it denied her tenure, a unanimous jury in Washington Superior Court found Monday. The professor, Loubna Skalli-Hanna, who now teaches Middle Eastern studies off the tenure track at the University of California Washington Center, applied for tenure at American in 2013. She received endorsements at all levels of review but was denied tenure at the provost’s level.

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