[3] During this time, he published papers with 63 undergraduates, 30 graduate students and 34 postdoctoral fellows and visitors.

Jones is credited as being among the early adapters of the distance education technology, in the late 1960s, using the Victor Electrowriter Remote Blackboard (VERB) system.

[4][5] After retiring from Princeton in 2007, Jones taught organic chemistry at New York University until spring 2022 on annual contract basis.

[7] His contract at NYU was not renewed in 2022 after students complained that the class was too hard and did not provide adequate academic support.

Alán Aspuru-Guzik, a professor at the University of Toronto, suggested that the student petition points to a "premed culture" in which the most important outcome of a course is the grade for the medical school application and the effects of social media distractions such as TikTok on the amount of studying done by students.