In a recent story for the , Katherine Mangan discusses the “collateral damage” that occurs when a faculty member is suspended or removed from an institution. Mangan follows the story of the undergraduate and graduate students whose advisor, a University of California at Los Angeles professor, was placed “on leave” without advance warning or explanation. The students discuss the difficulties of developing their dissertation projects alone, the loss of the community that the professor had built in their labs, the ethical and legal issues associated with attempting to publish papers based on work with an absent advisor, and the experience of being encouraged to select new advisors who may not have experience in their area of work.
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