Originally Posted by
bae
My daughter has been applying for tenure-track positions at universities around the world, as her research fellowship at Cambridge runs out in a year or so, and she already has substantially completed her projects there.
This week, with the attack on Harvard, was the last straw. Harvard and Yale are pretty much the only two universities in the US where positions in her field exist. She had made it to the final round of interviews at both places, but withdrew her applications today and accepted an offer from St. Andrews in Scotland, which is one of the leading institutions in the UK and Europe.
Brain drain. Talented young people are looking elsewhere for employment. Academics at the beginning of their careers seem unwilling to take the risk that their programs or universities here in the US might vanish out from under them, leaving them high-and-dry, killing their careers before they even really get started.