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They want collaboration and access to great minds, not influence. Also, every if they did want influence, the ivy pay would make even more sense bc the ivy tail

They want collaboration and access to great minds, not influence. Also, every if they did want influence, the ivy pay would make even more sense bc the ivy tail wags the academic dog. Better to influence a generation of future faculty than one Dept of current ones...

Fomite 8y ago
"Collaboration and access to great minds" comes from influence. As does the opportunity to shape postdocs and graduate students - the generation of future faculty you're talking about.
- mav3rick 8y ago
  The influence is no good if the research isn't high quality. There are other initiatives besides labs by Google.
  - Fomite 8y ago
    You make the huge assumption that only elite institutions produce high quality research. Especially for narrow specialties, this isn't necessarily true either.