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<p>Not everybody sees it your way. In fact the purists in the Nobel counting game see it just the opposite –> that a school should legitimately claim only Nobel laureates who are CURRENTLY on the faculty, as Schelling is at UMD. It is viewed as padding when schools claim a Nobelist who used to be there but isn’t any longer. UCSB has a very strict policy on this - only current profs count. By contrast, the Univ. of Chicago is the champ at claiming every Nobel winner who ever stopped in for cup of coffee no matter they may be now.</p>
<p>An article on the very topic was on the front page of today’s LA Times:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-nobelinflate10oct10,0,6951892,print.story?coll=la-home-nation[/url]”>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-nobelinflate10oct10,0,6951892,print.story?coll=la-home-nation</a></p>