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Fresno State disciplined one faculty member and two other staffers for sexual harassment and other complaints between 2016 and 2019, and they are among 54 California State University staffers named in sex harassment cases resolved between 2017 and 2021, EdSource reported Tuesday.
According to the report, Fresno State took the following actions:
EdSource requested records from the CSU system for sexual harassment cases and received them for 12 campuses, including Fresno State. Cases from another five campuses will be released later this month.
The public records request followed the resignation of CSU Chancellor Joseph I. Castro, who faced mounting criticism over revelations in a sex harassment case that he had failed to aggressively discipline his friend Frank Lamas, then vice president of student affairs, when Castro was Fresno State’s president and instead had written a letter of recommendation and paid him $20,000 in exchange for Lamas’ resignation.
Read the EdSource story here.
Nancy Price is a multimedia journalist for GV Wire. A longtime reporter and editor who has worked for newspapers in California, Florida, Alaska, Illinois and Kansas, Nancy joined GV Wire in July 2019. She previously worked as an assistant metro editor for 13 years at The Fresno Bee. Nancy earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Her hobbies include singing with the Fresno Master Chorale and volunteering with Fresno Filmworks. You can reach Nancy at 559-492-4087 or Send an Email
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