White professor files lawsuit against Penn State for ‘racially hostile environment’

According to the lawsuit, two of De Piero’s superiors — Liliana Naydan, chair of the English Department and Writing Program coordinator; and Friederike Baer, division head of Arts & Humanities — told the non-tenure line faculty member that student outcomes alone (i.e. grades) demonstrated whether a faculty member was racist. In a March 2019 email, De Piero said Naydan wrote, “For me, the racism is in the results if the results draw a color line.”