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COM settles lawsuit with former student
By Rhiannon Meyers
The Daily News
Published October 7, 2009
TEXAS CITY — College of the Mainland trustees settled a lawsuit with a former student who claimed the college failed to protect her from racial and sexual discrimination when she was enrolled in the college’s firefighter program in 2005.
The settlement ends the three-year-old lawsuit in which Heather Herndon, an African-American, claimed she was humiliated, berated, belittled and harassed by students and instructors in the firefighting program.
As part of the settlement, the college paid Herndon an undisclosed sum of money, Kim James, the college’s attorney, said. The sum will not be disclosed because the settlement is confidential, James said.
Herndon’s attorney did not return a phone message seeking comment.
Herndon claimed in the lawsuit she filed in 2006 that the college created or allowed “an educational atmosphere of pervasive sexual harassing and racially motivated behavior that was so inhumanely intolerable that it caused (her) great pain, humiliation and mental anguish.”
Herndon claimed she was kicked out of the program for infractions that her male colleagues were not charged with.
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