A female professor at the University of Southern California has filed a federal discrimination complaint against the institution, saying that the decision this year to deny her tenure fits a longstanding pattern in the university’s humanities and social-sciences departments of promoting white men at much higher rates than women and members of minority groups.

Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Tenure-Decisions-at-Southern/135754/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en