Or still in government?
Is Mylovanov back at Pitt?
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He just posted a thread and aside from the war I am utterly confused how one can hold a position at Pitt and also be the president of another school, and on top of that have various government positions in Ukraine. This was all happening before the war. College indeed is a racket. I would not like to be a tuition-payer at Pitt.
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He just posted a thread and aside from the war I am utterly confused how one can hold a position at Pitt and also be the president of another school, and on top of that have various government positions in Ukraine. This was all happening before the war. College indeed is a racket. I would not like to be a tuition-payer at Pitt.
Chud, I know you haven’t set foot inside a college campus since 2003, but faculty take leaves, sometimes multi-year leaves, to work in government or industry all the time. If such a leave isn’t directly related to said faculty’s research, it usually isn’t paid.
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He just posted a thread and aside from the war I am utterly confused how one can hold a position at Pitt and also be the president of another school, and on top of that have various government positions in Ukraine. This was all happening before the war. College indeed is a racket. I would not like to be a tuition-payer at Pitt.
Chud, I know you haven’t set foot inside a college campus since 2003, but faculty take leaves, sometimes multi-year leaves, to work in government or industry all the time. If such a leave isn’t directly related to said faculty’s research, it usually isn’t paid.
Read the thread though, he says he’s on sabbatical from Pitt this year. But has been at KSE and Ukrainian government for several years now. It does not seem like he has been on an unpaid leave at all.
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He has been on leave from Pitt for some years now, first working for the Ukraine government, now running KSE. I assume this is unpaid leave. As another poster already pointed out, these forms of leave to take government positions are well known in academia.
If you want to do something useful, as opposed to writing stupid posts here, give a donation to the Kyiv School of Economics. They are doing good work.
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Pitt insider:
He was on unpaid leave a few years ago when he had the government position, then came back to the university. He was given a year of unpaid leave but he would’ve had to leave after that. He went back on leave when the war started and he’s on unpaid leave indefinitely (the university is making an exception because of the war). As for if he’ll ever come back, who knows, as long as he survives.
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He just posted a thread and aside from the war I am utterly confused how one can hold a position at Pitt and also be the president of another school, and on top of that have various government positions in Ukraine. This was all happening before the war. College indeed is a racket. I would not like to be a tuition-payer at Pitt.
Chud, I know you haven’t set foot inside a college campus since 2003, but faculty take leaves, sometimes multi-year leaves, to work in government or industry all the time. If such a leave isn’t directly related to said faculty’s research, it usually isn’t paid.
Exactly. As the insider above posted, all of the leave is unpaid. All Pitt is providing is a promise that his job will be available when he comes back. It is pretty standard, and there are generally some restrictions/time limits to it.
The idea behind these policies is that faculty are able to do interesting or useful things and then bring that experience back to the university to raise the profile of the university and/or use that experience to help students.
One way faculty can take advantage of it in a way that is somewhat questionable is to use it to explore a new venture. If the venture works, they make it permanent and quit their academic job. If it doesn't, they can always return. My department had a faculty member who was able to extend a venture into industry for a shockingly long period of time. With a combination of maxing out unpaid leaves, sabbaticals, and paternity leaves, he was able to be at the university for a total of one semester over seven years before finally quitting for good. Most of that was unpaid, but he did keep the tenure line tied up. Since we are a small department, that was a real inconvenience for us.