N.C. State’s former director of academic support for student-athletes is suing the university, claiming in a federal lawsuit he was discriminated against and harassed before being wrongly terminated in April 2015.
Jermaine Holmes, who worked at N.C. State from March 2014 to April 2015, says in the suit that he was fired by the university after he raised concerns about interns working 60 hours a week while only being paid for 40; the employment of a basketball coach’s daughter as a tutor; and the elimination of three intern positions at a time when the number of at-risk student-athletes being admitted to the school was rising.