Asian Professor Alleges SMU Relabeled Him ‘White,’ Discriminated Against Him

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Sean Wang, an assistant professor of accounting at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University (SMU), filed suit against the university for unlawful discrimination and retaliation in November 2025.

News of the lawsuit broke days ago, first reported by journalist Chris Brunet. 

Wang, who is Chinese-American, alleges SMU’s Accounting Department “has had a systematic pattern of discrimination in tenure decision” since the arrival of Indian-origin professor Hemang Desai. (RELATED: INGERSOLL: OOOPS! The New York Times Did A Racism And It Might Be Cooked For It) 

“Among candidates of Indian descent who meet SMU’s stated productivity standard of at least four top-tier publications, 100% (2 of 2) were tenured … Among candidates of non-Indian descent (Caucasian and........

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