A professor at Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law is blowing the whistle on what he says is a pattern of racial discrimination that harms students and the school’s mission.

“Non-white professors were treated much more favorably, and received deanships, titles, and directorships, despite being less qualified,” said the complaint in Champion v. Texas Southern University, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. “Race was a motivating factor in defendant’s adverse treatment of plaintiff.”