The University of Colorado has reached a settlement agreement with two doctoral students from India who sued the university after reporting discrimination and retaliation, which they claimed prevented them from earning their degrees.

Adi Prakash and Urmi Bhattacheryya were international students studying to earn their doctoral degrees in cultural anthropology when they reported racial and ethnic microaggressions by department staff in the fall of 2023. After they reported the discrimination, the department continued to retaliate against them in the years that followed, the students said. The two students filed the lawsuit in September.

“The university reached an agreement with the plaintiffs and denies any liability,” CU Boulder spokesperson Deborah Mendez-Wilson said in a statement. “Th

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