Thomas Peele
EdSource ReporterThomas Peele is an investigative reporter at EdSource. He is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter. His journalism career began in 1983 at a small weekly newspaper. He has a B.A. in journalism from Long Island University and an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco. In addition to his Pulitzer for stories on the tragic Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, he has won more that 70 journalism awards including the (Ralph) McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage, and the Tom Renner Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors for reporting on organized crime. He is also the author of Killing the Messenger, a book about the 2007 assassination of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey. Prior to joining EdSource in 2020, he was an investigative reporter for the Bay Area News Group for 20 years. He is also a continuing lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
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Chico State president says she will do all she can to get CSU to review how the university has handled the David Stachura matter. -
Betsey Tamietti, a lecturer, last week revealed that Stachura threatened to shoot up the department. -
The university's Academic Senate formally asked the California State University trustees to conduct an independent investigation. -
Campus president rescinds professor's 2020-21 'outstanding professor' award at faculty request. -
Academic Senate announces special meeting amid calls from some professors for a no-confidence vote. -
Chico State administration promises to investigate; under fire for keeping mum about alleged threats to kill colleagues who complained of his student affair. -
The Chico State chapter of the California Faculty Association issued a campus-wide apology Monday for the way it handled a 2020 case involving a biology professor’s affair with a graduate student he supervised.
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President suspends David Stachura following a day of uproar on campus "so we can finish the semester without further disruptions." -
CSU is auditing the handling of Title IX cases at all 23 campuses. Investigators visited Chico State in September. -
Adjuncts representing eight California community college districts statewide are suing for back pay to cover time spent outside the classroom meeting with students and other course work.
