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Post by rockymtblue2 on Dec 16, 2015 8:59:04 GMT -5
"The authority college leaders have to factor in a professor's criminal record when determining whether they deserve to be fired or given a pay raise has become an issue as Ravi Shankar – a poetry professor at Central Connecticut State University – continues to stack up arrests and convictions. Last year, the Board of Regents for Higher Education gave Shankar a promotion to full professor while he was in jail at the Hartford Correctional Center – a move that helped boost his annual salary from $83,200 to $96,900. That was the fifth time Shankar had been locked up in 15 months. Shankar has been convicted of offenses that include driving under the influence, giving a police officer someone else's license after getting into a collision and providing a false statement to authorities in a credit card fraud scheme." ctmirror.org/2015/12/16/as-professor-racks-up-convictions-cscu-unable-to-consider-them-in-employment-decisions/This "poetry professor" is still at it. "Shanker is scheduled to be back in court Thursday morning in Middletown on five pending charges relating to his alleged involvement in shoplifting from Home Depot and leaving the scene of an accident." Seems the current labor contract won't allow off campus criminality to be considered in employment decisions. Total craziness. PCness gone way too far and this is just another example.
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Post by chicagogg on Dec 16, 2015 10:28:46 GMT -5
It is insane that he can continue on this road, and reoffend, and pay no significant consequence professionally. If someone who was not in a strong union did any of this, they would be out of work and out of luck. He gets a raise, tenure, and a leave from academics while he served his time. Let's see how he fares in this go-round.
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