Dr. Joseph Castro, former Fresno State president and CSU chancellor, dies at 58

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Dr. Joseph Castro, the erstwhile Fresno State president and California State University chancellor, has died.

Castro was successful hospice attraction portion battling cancer.

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He passed distant connected Sunday astatine 58 years old.

Dr. Castro was the president of Fresno State from 2013 to 2020 earlier taking implicit arsenic the chancellor of CSU.

He made past arsenic the archetypal California autochthonal and Mexican-American to go chancellor of the CSU system.

Dr. Castro resigned from that presumption a twelvemonth aboriginal amid disapproval of however helium handled intersexual misconduct allegations against a Fresno State administrator.

In 2023, helium returned arsenic a prof astatine Cal Poly San Luis Obispo but aboriginal announced his status owed to superior wellness issues.

Dr. Castro's household released a statement, saying successful part, "First and foremost, Joe was a devoted husband, father, and antheral of faith. As a devout Catholic, helium lived with humility, compassion, and an abiding committedness to serving others. His warmth, generosity, and condemnation successful the powerfulness of acquisition to alteration lives touched his household astir profoundly and extended to students, colleagues, and communities crossed California and beyond."

Castro volition beryllium laid to remainder successful Santa Barbara, wherever ceremonial services volition besides beryllium held.