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UCR law student alleges discrimination after questioning graduation practices and says she lost enrollment
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- A University of Costa Rica law student filed a discrimination complaint against the faculty dean and other authorities.
- Sofía Alfaro Gómez alleges that the Faculty of Law discriminated against her after she questioned how its Directed Graduation Practices were conducted.
- She says she was left without enrollment.
A law student at the University of Costa Rica has accused the university’s Faculty of Law of discrimination after questioning the way its Directed Graduation Practices were conducted.
Sofía Alfaro Gómez filed the complaint with the university’s Institutional Commission Against Discrimination. Her complaint names Marcela Moreno Buján, dean of the Faculty of Law, along with other faculty authorities.
Alfaro Gómez alleges that the faculty’s response to her questions about the graduation practices left her without enrollment. The complaint places the dispute within the university’s institutional process for addressing discrimination claims.
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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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