The former Dean of the College of Agriculture has filed a federal suit against the CSU Board of Trustees and Chico State President Steve Perez for wrongful termination..... Dr. Patricia Stock was fired in June of 2023 and in her suit she alleges that Perez fired her after local ag interests and members of the Butte County Farm Bureau coordinated a campaign to have her dismissed. Perez denies those claims Stock and her lawyers have subpoenaed the text messages from Butte County Farm Bureau Executive Director Colleen Cecil alleging a coordinated effort to influence Chico State Administration. Stock says in the 173 page complaint obtained by KPAY that local ag interests did not approve of her selection of Ricardo Orellana to lead the University Farm. She includes text messages where local ag interests speak in derogatory tones about the latin heritage of herself and Orellana. The suit claims that Perez told Stock she was being fired because she was "antagonizing community partners." Stock's suit also claims local ag leaders were getting preferential treatment when it came to no-bid contracts and financial payouts under the previous Dean of Agriculture.