Dive Brief:

• Connecticut’s Board of Regents for Higher Education is letting stand the promotion of an imprisoned Central Connecticut State University professor.
• Last week, the board had approved the promotion to full professor of Ravi Shankar, a poet who was previously a tenured associate professor. The board’s agenda for its Monday meeting had a resolution scheduled to rescind the promotion.
• Shankar is serving a two-week segment of a 90-day pre-trial confinement at the Hartford Correctional Center for violating probation from two earlier arrests. He is scheduled to be released Thursday.

Dive Insight:

A spokesman for the board of regents said that it is concerned about the process for recommending promotions, and that it has asked Central Connecticut State University to look into how Shankar’s promotion was recommended, and how promotions in general are recommended. But the spokesman said that Shankar’s promotion will probably continue to stand. The promotion is effective August 22.