Opinion ID: 219821
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The 2007 Special Salary Adjustment

Text: Alexander next alleges that he suffered discrimination when he received only a small special salary adjustment in 2007. Here, too, he fails to make out a prima facie case by showing that he was treated differently from similarly situated faculty. He has presented no evidence that the panel applied the evaluation criteria differently to him than to the other full professors with whom his scores were compared to determine his raise. Rather, he disagrees with the decision to award lower-ranking faculty higher percentage raises than senior faculty because the former’s salaries lagged further behind those at other institutions. Alexander also contends that he deserved the highest possible rating for scholarship, which no panel member gave him. But he has not demonstrated that other full professors received higher ratings for equally worthy scholarship. Finally, Alexander alleges that two panel members rated him poorly in order to allocate themselves a greater share of the pool reserved for full professors. This, however, cuts against his claim that the size of his raise was the product of racial discrimination.