The universities should be doing research that private companies won't do. This is pretty obviously just private companies hoping that they can get subsidized University employees to do consulting work cheaply so they don't have to hire people at high cost.

The universities are where most basic research, which is to say research that does not immediately pay off, gets done. We need to put more money into that because it's a pipeline. The research that was done 50 sometimes even 100 years ago is paying of

The academics you want most for consulting are the ones from research universities. However, those academics generally work 80 hours weeks already just to keep their jobs.

I know this first hand. I was a postdoc at a major research university, at the time intending to follow the academic career track. This was after doing my PhD at another - albeit much smaller and less prestigious - public research university. What I saw as a postdoc while rubbing elbows with junior faculty really opened my eyes.

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are rare, at least in my field (engineering).

I've done some consulting jobs, and I can straight-up state that they've never even come close to compensating sufficiently for time/hassle/energy expended. I still do them whenever I can, because I think that it's important for an engineering academic to keep one foot grounded in real life. However, I totally understand why my colleagues neglect it or straight-up avoid it like the plague.

When a company looks for a consultant, this is what they want. They

Academia needs to boot professional sports and the "experience" psychos from college planning. 99% of students don't give one fuck about NCAA or apc10 or whatever the fuck bullshit sports stuff they subsidize with their ballooning tuition and other student body fees