NEW BRITAIN – A Central Connecticut State University poetry professor, who has constantly failed to stay out of trouble, said he will resign, according to The Hartford Courant.
Ravi Shankar was arrested in July when police said he took merchandise off store shelves at a Middletown Home Depot and then returned it to try to swindle $1339.75 in store credit.
Shankar was placed on administrative suspension without pay this summer.
This was Shankar’s third arrest in a year. In December of 2014, he was arrested twice – once for driving with a suspended license, and once for evading responsibility for an accident that he fled from. Both of those cases are still pending.
On July 29, 2015, CCSU said that he was suspended without pay and his position at the university is pending the results of an investigation into the charges against him. CCSU said the school made that decision “after about a week’s worth of consideration.”
Shankar has served time in the past for several other crimes he committed, including two DUIs, operating with a suspended license, reckless driving over 85 mph, interfering with police, giving police false statements in a credit card fraud scheme and violating his probation.
He served a 90-day sentence broken up into several periods, during which time he was promoted to get full tenure, which sparked controversy. Shankar has worked at CCSU for more than 12 years as a poetry and creative writing professor.
