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Saturday, June 09, 2007

A Lot of Naughty Professor Stories...

...come out of business schools, departments of economics, and other university profit centers. That's something UD has learned by keeping this blog. She's always posting stories about people like Andrei Shleifer and Barry Landreth, who use federal grants, students, and other revenue sources to supplement their personal wealth.

Here's another one: A University of California Riverside business school professor has for years double dipped on his sabbatical:

The University of California Board of Regents filed a lawsuit against a longtime UC Riverside professor Friday, accusing him of repeatedly violating school policy by accepting additional income while on sabbatical.

...In the lawsuit filed in Riverside Superior Court on Friday, the regents allege Sarkis Joseph Khoury, a faculty member in UCR's Graduate School of Management since 1984, violated the school's sabbatical policy on multiple occasions: at the University of British Columbia in 1988; at Goteborg University in Sweden in 1999 and 2000; and at American University of Beirut in Lebanon in 2003 and 2004.

...University policy permits faculty to take periodic sabbatical leave at full salary and benefits, but they cannot supplement their income, the lawsuit said.



See, you're supposed to be using your sabbatical for research uninterrupted by teaching. It's a very nice thing universities do, providing these semester-long or year-long opportunities to gather your thoughts. The enterprising Khoury uses them to gather two income streams.



---the press-enterprise---
Posted at: 6/09/2007 06:10:00 PM