Was he forced out? Scandal?
His new position at Sydney is much more administrative work for probably less pay.
Why did Simon Jackman give up his tenured position at Stanford?
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I don't know. The Australians pay a s**t ton.
Was he forced out? Scandal?
His new position at Sydney is much more administrative work for probably less pay.Dude's Australian. And despite the comparably high cost of living in Syndey, at least you're living in a vibrant city and not endless suburbia.
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And it wasn't a mild complaint. It was one that could also land a person in serious legal trouble if charges were filed.
Stanford agreed to drop its investigation stemming from a complaint if he resigned his position.
This is accurate.I guess it's how you define "consent." Not sure any prosecutor would have taken the case.
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I recall that some time around 2016, my department (and, I presume, several others) had gotten word that Jackman was interested in leaving Stanford for anywhere else, and would we be interested in hiring him?
Ultimately, my department just didn't have the line for it, nor were we going to convince our dean to create a new line for him. We were, however, pretty unclear on why he seemed so eager to leave Stanford (And my university is in the US, even further away from Australia than Stanford is). The rumors about the harassment issue didn't come out until later. But I'm pretty thankful that we seemed to have dodged a bullet by not going after him.
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There may have also been, how to say, birth control after conception
Now there's a twist I hadn't heard of.
Can definitely confirm the cocaine use & the sleeping with undergrads abroad, though. It's not super common knowledge in the dept - the big names at Stanford did a good job of hushing up the real reasons he left.