Memo to CCSU: Your Penitentiary Poet Returns to Court Thursday.

Cosseted Central Connecticut State University poet and professor Ravi Shankar returns to criminal court Thursday on a host of unsettling charges. The state’s incurious Board of Regents last month promoted the recidivist to a full professorship last month while he was serving time in the hoosegow in an unusual arrangement that allowed Shankar to go in and out of incarceration as his schedule permitted.  Some of Shankar’s pending matters have appeared on the docket 28 times. This is not typical treatment of a chronic defendant.