[inPhase]

Yeah, if the U hired the person as faculty (professor, scholar, associate etc) then they get the official letterhead and publishing rights. Their judgement in picking you is supposed to be enough. Then there is tenure, another story.

Remember the peanut butter fusion? Nearly ruined a few schools' reputation in physics.

[Tempest]

According to your original claim he doesn't even need to be hired or paid staff, but instead he just needs to attend the school.

"The students and the faculty are the university."

Geee you're going to get alot of conflicting opinions on what the school actually thinks under that formula. . .