CSUN Moving to Reinstate Professor
Cal State Northridge is moving to reinstate a Pan-African studies professor fired last year for allegedly offering students “A” grades in exchange for selling raffle tickets, a university spokeswoman said Tuesday.
But CSUN will continue efforts to fire Eleazu S. Obinna, a tenured 17-year professor who was partially exonerated in June when the California Personnel Board ordered the university to give him his job back, said CSUN spokesman Gloria Welles.
The university’s appeal of the ruling will not be heard until late September or early November, and a decision “might not come down until some time after that,” Welles said.
“In adherence to the current ruling of the state personnel board, we are discussing with Dr. Obinna his return to the classroom this fall,” Welles said. “We really have no choice.”
Obinna could not be reached for comment and has previously declined to comment, on his attorney’s advice.
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