CEDAR FALLS, Iowa ( Iowa Capital Dispatch ) - A University of Northern Iowa professor is suing the university, alleging administrators waged a coordinated campaign to falsely “frame” her for disability discrimination while subjecting her to gender-based discrimination.

In a newly filed federal lawsuit filed against UNI, Mary Catherine DeSoto, an author and a tenured professor at the school, states that her “life and career have been defined by sustained political activism and public advocacy, including raising concerns about administrative spending, resource allocation, and institutional waste.”

She alleges those positions have, at various times during her 24 years at the school, placed her “in sharp conflict with university administration.”

The lawsuit alleges that after “disturbing

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