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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. 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--- |