Why does ISU ask chair of physics department to resign?
BOISE, Idaho – The new chair of the Idaho State University physics department was asked to resign his post after allowing an Ecuadorian professor without proper visa papers to teach in the classroom, a school spokesman said. Steven Shropshire has been with the university since 1991 and was promoted to department chair in July. The college of arts and sciences dean asked Shropshire to resign his post on Wednesday, university spokesman Graham Garner said. Shropshire is still employed by the university as a professor, Garner said. As department chair, Shropshire wanted professor Hector Calderon to teach three upper-division classes this semester. University officials said they told him to hold off, however, because Calderon didn’t have a current H1B visa to work on the Pocatello campus. Calderon has legally worked for at least one another school, Garner said, but his visa needed to list Idaho State University as his official employer before he could begin teaching there. Carleton College,
