Joseph Castro, who resigned last month amid investigations into his handling of sexual harassment complaints while at Fresno State, will receive a one-year transition salary of $401,000.
Recently ousted California State University Chancellor Joseph Castro will receive a salary of $401,000 while participating in a yearlong transition program that allows him to become a professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where he is tenured.
Uhlenkamp Friday that it’s too early to determine what the monetary value would be for Castro’s unused vacation and sick time. The executive transition program available to CSU administrators — chancellor, vice chancellor, university presidents — allows the system to benefit from the accumulated experience of each individual upon his or her resignation, Uhlenkamp said.on Feb. 17 amid reports that he failed to properly handle complaints of sexual harassment and bullying against Frank Lamas, the former vice president for student affairs at Fresno State University, when Castro served as president there.
Lamas has denied doing anything wrong, calling the allegations against him “illegitimate and false.” He said the university ignored information he and his supporters provided during the investigations in 2019. Despite what he claimed was a positive track record at Fresno State, he decided to resign to prevent a “prolonged legal situation.
The Board of Trustees also announced Tuesday that CSU will revise its practice allowing administrators to retreat to faculty positions, and that the Chancellor’s Office was preparing to issue a policy that will bring systemwide consistency to a process that has historically been addressed individually by CSU’s 23 campuses.