Whistleblowers allege retaliation by St. Charles college [Video]

ST CHARLES, Missouri — Months before an award-winning educator was criminally charged with tampering with computer data, she and several of her female colleagues raised concerns about racial discrimination, sexual harassment and other forms of mistreatment from administrators at St. Charles Community College, court documents show. 

Dr. Nicole Nunn-Faron, who recently left her post as the education department chairperson at the college to take a job as the dean of the College of Education at Harris-Stowe State University, was among six women who worked at the college to file a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 

Another current employee who still works there joined with those six to file a lawsuit alleging that President Barbara Kavalier’s administration systematically retaliated against women who raised concerns about harassment, discrimination or accreditation.

Some of the women …