Whether the denial of promotion to Professor rank of an older scientist with significant prior research contributions solely on the basis of lack of publications during Associate Professor rank constitutes age discrimination

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED It is a practice of Age Discrimination in deeming an old scientist (Petitioner)’s very significant scientific contributions prior to his changing career at an old age to teaching [including a publication in , journal Nature that significantly advanced Langmuir’s 1917 work of a Chemistry Nobel Prize (awarded in 1932),! and a publication in journal Science?] as “inadmissible” in evaluating the old scientist for his later application for promotion to Professor rank and denying his promotion solely for this on-paper-reason. It is understandable for an old individual, who made very significant contributions in scientific research earlier and changed to teaching in his/her ; later career at an old age, to restart at a low rank ata teaching university, since the person still needs professional growth in teaching and since the institution is a teaching university, even if the individual’s professional growth in scientific research before arriving at the teaching university already surpassed the standard of the Professor rank at the teaching university. The individual already paid a 1M. Y. Li, A. A. Acero, Z. Huang and S. A. Rice, Formation of an | . ordered Langmuir monolayer by a non-polar chain molecule, Nature 367, 151-153 (1994). 25. B. Flom, M. y. Li, A. Acero, N. Maskil and S. A. Rice, Inplane structure of the liquid-vapor interface of an alloy: a grazing incidence X-ray diffraction study of Bi:Ga, Science 260, 332-3385 (1998). i . | | | | | heavy professional and financial price by restarting at a low rank in his/her later career and his/her older age. The old came to the United States from China as a young scientist in 1986, became a US citizen of Asian descent in 1999. The old was hired as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Shepherd University in 2008, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012, and became an accomplished teacher and researcher at Shepherd. In 2017 and 2018 Petitioner's : applications for promotion to Professor rank were denied solely for the on-paper-reason of lack of full length journal publications during Associate Professor rank. ? Robert Warburton, a Caucasian colleague without any publication during his Associate Professor rank, who published less in quality and less 3 After 5 years’ research, in October 2016 (prior to Petitioner's : application for promotion in 2017), Petitioner submitted a . research paper to the top physics journal Physical Review Letters and already had two referees and total five experts agreed with the main conclusion of the paper (Complete authors: Petitioner and his two undergraduate students); also during his Associate Professor rank prior to his application for promotion in 2017, Petitioner (as Principal Investigator) was granted beam-time at the largest synchrotron accelerator in the U.S; Petitioner gave a speech presentation of his research at the American Chemical Society National Meeting. These accomplishments are rare among teaching university faculty. The Physical Review Letters paper’s publication process is on-hold because Petitioner has since been occupied by fighting the continuous and increasing discriminations and harassments, and by the pro se grievances and lawsuits due to his limited financial resources. ii : in quantity than Petitioner did, was promoted at a young age to Professor rank on the same written criteria. Warburton has been a friend of the University President Mary Hendrix and was further promoted to Dean in 2017. Warburton and other officers denied my promotion. Multiple Caucasian colleagues, who published less in quality and less or the same in quantity than Petitioner did, were promoted to Professor rank. Dean Robert Warburton and current department chair Jacquelyn Cole (under . 40, Caucasian) conspired with and encouraged multiple Caucasian colleagues, ganged up on, ; continuously discriminated against and harassed Petitioner from Fall 2014 (right after the romantic personal relationship between Petitioner and a fema