By snoadmin
A Cal State Long Beach Health and Science professor said he was upset that a dean tried to force him to sign his contract in front of his class.
Lecture Ezra Levy taught Drugs and Health 427, a G.E. requirement that satisfies section E degree process at CSULB. Health and Human Service associate dean, Dr. Sue Stanley, followed Levy into the classroom Sept. 9 and told him that if he didn’t sign his contract he will get fired, said Connie Lucio, a sociology major and a student in the class.
“He was teaching a class room without a contract, we had to deliver the contract, you can’t stand in front of a class room and teach,” said Dr. Kenneth Millar dean College of Health and Human Services.
Levy then addressed the class, asking them if they thought that it was fair that Stanley was trying to force him to sign a contract that had him down for teaching one class, which would deny him health benefits, said senior journalism student Giovanny Cevallos, who was there.
Levy said he then asked the class to march to the president’s office.
“He [Levy] told us not to give up and to stick it out and we would be added to the class,” Cevallos said.
“I will never turn a single student away because it’s so unethical,” Levy said.
According to Levy, he was cited by University Police for disrupting his class and is not allowed to be on campus.
In essence Levy refused to sign his contract, therefore, he resign, Millar said.
“Once students found out that the professor wasn’t going to be teaching any more, they dropped the class,” Lucio said.
“I didn’t like how they [faculty] acted. All Levy was doing was adding,” Lucio said.
Karla Sosa contributed to this article.
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