A federal district court in eastern Pennsylvania backed Philadelphia-based Drexel University’s argument that a White male direct report resisted being supervised by a Black compliance exec because of her management style and not because of her race, color or sex, according to a Feb. 9 ruling in Gunter v. Drexel University.
Notably, “not all the blame lies with [the White male]. Drexel did a poor job of communicating its expectations to [him] and making sure that he adhered to those expectations,” the court observed.
Drexel and the executive’s attorney did not respond to requests for a comment.
The executive served as vice president and chief compliance privacy and internal audit (IA) officer. She was responsible for administrative management of the IA department and the White male because he was head of the IA department.
Her predecessor was also a White male who gave the White male IA head wide berth in running the department. He preferred “staying in [his] lane,” according to court documents. He confined his role to tasks such as reviewing and approving time sheets and budgets and had limited interaction with the IA head and IA employees.
By contrast, the executive took a “more involved approach.” She liked to have one-on-one meetings with the IA head and his staff and participate in his hiring decisions, the record showed.
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