The number of workplace discrimination claims concerning race and ethnicity has been increasing for the last decade. This might be due to more willingness to report incidents, as opposed to shrugging off bigotry, as well more awareness about discrimination. "But at a minimum," said Derek Avery, a leading scholar in workplace discrimination at Temple's Fox School of Business, "those numbers suggest that we're not heading in the direction that one would anticipate, as we approach 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."