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How is this a nightmare scenario? Why is teaching being profit oriented a bad thing? There is no necessary loss of academic freedom. Paying a competitive salar

• mkl 7y ago
  > the university is trying to retain researchers not turn a profit on the research. Depends on the university. Most claim ownership of researchers' inventions and have ambitions of profiting from them (many stumble at the commercialisation/monetisation step). For example, Stanford has reportedly made hundreds of millions off Google's PageRank algorithm, because Stanford owned the patent, not Larry Page. That's a good incentive not to work as a university researcher.
  • creato 7y ago
    I think Larry Page did okay in the end. It's not like Stanford takes hundreds of millions from every rinky dink idea thought up by it's students. Another way to look at it is researchers are getting somewhat angelic investments from schools.
• ldoughty 7y ago
  The money to pay people comes from loans, which are thousands of people hoping they make more money in the future to pay salaries today. If salaries were higher, tuition would be even more difficult and raise the loans even more. Really universities need to find ways to capitalize on their knowledge base to help pay salaries. They also need to reduce overhead... Many schools have several disjoined IT and sometimes HR departments.