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It's not easy to leave a tenured position you worked half your life to get to I suppose...

• lucubratory 1y ago
  From what I understand the PRC tries pretty hard to provide a lot of incentives to academic returnees. I do wonder if they have a tenure match program, where if you have tenure at an American university of a given calibre you are automatically granted tenure at a Chinese university of a similar calibre if you return to China. They probably should.
  • Andrex 1y ago
    If that's true, then that seems to be the simplest explanation for what happened here? (Honestly asking.)
    • Ar-Curunir 1y ago
      It is extremely bad form to leave your students stranded and move to another university with no communication. It also wouldn't warrant FBI action; plenty of people have moved back to their home countries from academic positions in the US.
    • lucubratory 1y ago
      Oh, no. I'm not talking about alleged espionage, I'm talking about people moving universities. Moving university doesn't mean disappearing off the face of the Earth.