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Incidents at San Francisco State University

Total: 2


Incident 8892

Status: Resolved
Person: Oscar Stewart
Role: Faculty
Position: Assistant Professor
Discipline: Business
Specific Discipline: Management
Outcome Year: 2020
Outcome Category: Resigned
Quote: "Violation of Consensual Relationship Policy - Respondent was found to have engaged in an intimate relationship with two students during a time when he had significant academic authority over both. The sustained allegations were not based on formal complaint against Respondent, but the University investigated after learning of the allegations. The University sustained a violation of sexual misconduct based on Respondent's violation of the Consensual Relationship Policy and issued a notice of termination. Respondent filed an appeal. To avoid the uncertainty of an arbitration proceeding, the parties agreed to settle and allow Respondent to resign."
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Incident 7543

Status: Resolved
Person: Mark Landis
Role: Faculty
Position: Associate Professor
Discipline: Business
Specific Discipline: Accounting
Outcome Year: 2014
Outcome Category: Criminal Plea / Conviction, Resigned
Quote: "Landis was an associate accounting professor at SF State from 2006 before his leave of absence in November 2013. He resigned from SF State July 18, days prior to his arrest, according to SF State spokesperson Ellen Griffin."

"At the time, Landis was a professor at San Francisco State University and the University of San Francisco, and his victims were all former or current students."

"A former San Francisco accounting professor has been sentenced to probation after pleading to charges that he secretly recorded videos of several people"
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