The University of Colorado paid a former female staffer in the Leeds School of Business $40,000 in 2013 in exchange for her dropping a federal gender discrimination complaint, according to documents recently provided to the Daily Camera by the university.
As part of the settlement with Robin Miglarese, former associate director of operations in executive education for the business school, the university also paid $7,845 for a Westminster leadership coach to work with Dean David Ikenberry and other leaders of the business school on “emotional intelligence.” The settlement agreement and the complaint Miglarese filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission were provided to the Daily Camera this month in response to a request for legal documents and complaints during Ikenberry’s five-year term.
The university previously shared with the Camera documents related to two other gender discrimination complaints filed with the employment commission. The complaint filed by former Leeds instructor Lauren Ramsay in May 2015 is still pending, while the complaint filed by Tip-Arpar Karasudhi, the business school’s former budget and finance director, was dismissed in April.
All told, three women have complained to the employment commission about Ikenberry and business school leaders since 2013, according to the university’s legal department. He became dean of the business school in 2011 and was reappointed to a second five-year term this summer.
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