Former head of IU program files EEOC complaint

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Updated: January 17, 2012 11:02PM

BLOOMINGTON (AP) — The former director of an Indiana University scholarship program has filed a federal complaint accusing IU of gender and equal pay discrimination.

Virginia LeBlanc resigned in August as director of IU’s Hudson & Holland Scholars Program that primarily serves African-American and other minority students.

LeBlanc’s complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges her pay was not commensurate with that of the program’s two previous black male directors. She also alleges unfair and inequitable hiring practices, a hostile work environment, verbal sexual harassment and intimidation.

LeBlanc’s attorney, Amos Jones, says the EEOC complaint contains “a mountain of evidence” against IU.

IU spokesman Mark Land says the school “denies the claim being made in this case and intends to defend itself against any legal action.”