> Didn’t he have tenure? <
It’s very odd. The guy was “a star teacher at Princeton” (says the article). Then he leaves Princeton to take a year-by-year contract job at New York University. Yes, very odd.
He is 84 years old and taught at Princeton for 43 years — from 1964 to 2007. Then went to teach at NYU. Maybe he wanted a change of scenery.
> Didn’t he have tenure? <
It’s very odd. The guy was “a star teacher at Princeton” (says the article). Then he leaves Princeton to take a year-by-year contract job at New York University. Yes, very odd.
At 84 he was likely retired and in adjunct status. I did the same thing after retiring from academia...just not in organic chemistry. Same problems though—undisciplined, lazy and confrontational students. The only thing that surprises me is that he just did quit mid-semester and tell them where to stick their job.