The allegedly defaming statements that the professor was suing over are irrelevant, since she is citing these lawsuits for their existence, not their content.

> You can make a lot of propaganda by choosing facts.

Like you did by choosing to only quote half of her sentence? The full sentence was "The professor sued for defamation various colleagues, administrators, and a former grad student whom, according to his complaint, he had previously dated; a judge dismissed those suits this month".