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===Dr. Carolyn Spears suit===

===Dr. Carolyn Spears suit===

In March 2018, Carolyn Spears (born c. 1941), a faculty member and administrator in physical education and teacher education at LC since 1977, who was tenured in 1984, filed suit in the United States District Court in Alexandria regarding her dismissal on grounds alleged age, gender, disability, and non-Calvinist religious beliefs. She claims retaliation while she underwent apparently successful [[cancer]] treatment in 2016 in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]]. She claims that the college rejected her request for medical accommodation and cut her pay by $500 per month. The suit maintains that Brewer and Cheryl Clark, the vice president of academic affairs,  conspired to "embarrass and humiliate" Spears into resigning from the faculty and alleges further that Clark "openly attacked" Spears and called the courses she taught a "joke" during a faculty meeting in April 2015 shortly after Brewer became the president.<ref name=spearscase>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/education/2018/03/21/another-federal-lawsuit-against-lc-alleges-discrimination/443511002/|title=Another federal lawsuit against Louisiana College alleges discrimination|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=March 21, 2018|author=Miranda Klein|accessdate=March 23, 2018}}</ref>

In March 2018, Carolyn Dossman Spears (born September 26, 1941), a native of Bunkie in Avoyelles Parish<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/carolyn-spears/carolyndossmanspears?valid=true&|title=Caroloyn Spears|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=December 24, 2020}}</ref> a faculty member and administrator in physical education and teacher education at LC since 1977, filed suit in the United States District Court in Alexandria regarding her dismissal on grounds of alleged age, gender, disability, and non-Calvinist religious beliefs. Tenured in 1984, she claims retaliation while she underwent apparently successful [[cancer]] treatment in 2016 in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]]. She claims that the college rejected her request for medical accommodation and cut her pay by $500 per month. The suit maintains that Brewer and Cheryl Clark, the vice president of academic affairs,  conspired to "embarrass and humiliate" Spears into resigning from the faculty and alleges further that Clark "openly attacked" Spears and called the courses she taught a "joke" during a faculty meeting in April 2015 shortly after Brewer became the president.<ref name=spearscase>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/education/2018/03/21/another-federal-lawsuit-against-lc-alleges-discrimination/443511002/|title=Another federal lawsuit against Louisiana College alleges discrimination|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=March 21, 2018|author=Miranda Klein|accessdate=March 23, 2018}}</ref>

   

   

In a letter, Brewer claimed the college paid Spears a full salary for two years "without her ever teaching a single student, although the college was not obligated to do so. LC cannot sustain such a practice, which has never been afforded any other faculty member." Spears denies that she was paid without teaching duties and instructed four hundred students while undergoing cancer treatments.<ref name=spearscase/>

In a letter, Brewer claimed the college paid Spears a full salary for two years "without her ever teaching a single student, although the college was not obligated to do so. LC cannot sustain such a practice, which has never been afforded any other faculty member." Spears denies that she was paid without teaching duties and instructed four hundred students while undergoing cancer treatments.<ref name=spearscase/>