She spent months fighting to get her course approved. Dartmouth fired her the day after
An African American professor says Dartmouth pushed her out over two years - then fired her one day after approving her course.
That is the picture painted in a complaint filed April 29, 2026 in the US District Court for the District of Columbia by Dr. Charnan Williams, an African American postdoctoral fellow in Dartmouth College's history department. She is suing the college and four senior administrators for race and sex discrimination, hostile work environment, retaliation, and a coordinated effort to destroy her academic career.
For HR leaders in higher education and beyond, the case is a tour of the workplace processes that most often surface in discrimination suits: performance reviews, grievance procedures, scheduling decisions, internal complaints, and post-termination reporting to state agencies.
According to the filing, Williams was hired in July 2023 on a two-year postdoctoral fellowship that was set to convert into a tenure-track assistant professor role. The complaint says that conversion never happened. On May 29, 2025 - one day after Dartmouth finally approved a course she had spent months trying to put on the schedule - the Dean of Faculty terminated her appointment, effective June 30, 2025.
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