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Cal State San Marcos Will Reassign Professor Who Harassed Students
Facing pressure from faculty and students, Cal State San Marcos officials say they’ve reassigned a professor who harassed students but was allowed to keep his job.
The Markstein Hall building at CSU San Marcos / Photo by Adriana Heldiz
Facing pressure from the Cal State San Marcos campus community, officials are giving professor Chetan Kumar a new assignment in which he won’t work directly with students.
University officials went through a yearlong process to fire Kumar after an investigation found he sexually harassed his former teacher’s aide and harassed three other students during the 2019 semester. But after the California Faculty Association filed an appeal, the school quickly backtracked and let Kumar keep his job. He had been scheduled to teach two classes at the university in the fall.
Dream comes true for late-in-life grad
By Pam Kragen - The San Diego Union-Tribune
Zsuzsanna Dianovics of Del Mar, California, has been named the Dean’s Outstanding Graduate for the College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at Cal State San Marcos with a computer science degree in cybersecurity.
SAN DIEGO – Zsuzsanna Dianovics was 7 years old when her family moved to the U.S. from Hungary. From an early age, she remembers her mom insisting that one day Zsuzsanna would make the family proud as a first-generation college student.
But when Dianovics was attending university in Illinois in the mid-’90s, she got pregnant and was forced to drop out of college at age 21. Four years later, she was a single mom with two children and was bartending and waiting tables to support her young family. She never gave up on college, but it became a dream that would have to wait.
SAN MARCOS
Eric Sy wasn’t expecting to spend more than a quarter of his college experience inside his family’s home in Rancho Bernardo.
But that’s where the 22-year-old computer science major at Cal State San Marcos spent much of 2020 and 2021, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
So it was a bit surreal for Sy and the several thousand fellow graduates who massed at the university’s track and field site Saturday in their black caps and gowns. The graduation ceremony marked the first time most of the classmates had stepped foot on the campus or gathered in person since before the health emergency shut things down in March 2020.