Ndubizu v. Drexel University

768 F. Supp. 2d 796 (2011)

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Nature of the Case

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Facts

At Drexel University's LeBow College of Business there are four levels of professor: Assistant, Associate, Full, and Endowed. D hired P as an Assistant Professor of Accounting. P is African American, black, and born in Nigeria. There are eleven filled and twelve total endowed professorships at LeBow. There is a Clarkson Professorship in Accounting which has been vacant since 2002. P claims that D promised to appoint him to an endowed professorship. P claims he had conversations with Defendant Tsetsekos in which Tsetsekos promised him that after two years as a Distinguished Research Fellow, Tsetsekos would appoint P to an endowed professorship. P has further claimed that, relying on this promise, he published articles and engaged in scholarly activities at a voracious pace, increased his scholarly production, writing a steady stream of top-flight articles, intensified, concentrated his entire life on generating high-powered research in top-tier journals, did extraordinarily more work than he had ever done or will ever do, worked extraordinary long overtime with no immediate remuneration, lost precious time with his family, impaired his health, went with very little sleep for long periods of time, suffered constant stress which resulted in increased medication and hypertension, refrained from applying for other chaired professorships at other universities, did not encourage inquiries as to whether he was interested in changing positions or looking for other employment, sent a resume to Temple University but did not pursue it. By 2007, P brought the instant suit against Ds.