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Given what we know about the characteristics of Harvard and Luboš, I surmise leaving Harvard involved a non-disclosure agreement and a settlement. How else coul

Given what we know about the characteristics of Harvard and Luboš, I surmise leaving Harvard involved a non-disclosure agreement and a settlement. How else could he completely resist writing about the event all this time? And while his blog is popular enough to generate some cash from advertisements, his apparent lack of other employment suggests a behind the scenes benefactor. The Harvard final exam issue reminds me of the Doonesbury sequence a couple of decades back in which the Ivy League slacker sued his professor for not giving him an A. I don't think the Harvard brand will suffer. It's been as much about who you know as about academic accomplishment for over a century.

hga 16y ago
One does wonder, but we do have to factor in that this part of Harvard generally doesn't do tenure track, so his separation could in part be related to his knowing he was never going get tenure or his time was simply up. Hmmm, I'll bet Harvard's standard separation package for these professors includes a non-disclosure agreement to not publicize their "system" and includes a nice consideration in return. Anyway, my point here is that except for his not returning to formal academia and his silence over the separation there's absolutely nothing unusual here.