Academic Ranks Explained or What on Earth Is an Adjunct?

Re:Academic Ranks Explained or What on Earth Is an Adjunct? by tomatodevice on Saturday April 29, 2023 @06:58AM (#35751791)

I've seen it a few times and I still don't understand how we can allow such blatant conflict of interests at the management level...

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Re:Academic Ranks Explained or What on Earth Is an Adjunct? by tough on Saturday April 29, 2023 @07:06AM (#35751841)

Everyone makes money?

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Re:Academic Ranks Explained or What on Earth Is an Adjunct? by mrobins on Saturday April 29, 2023 @08:08AM (#35752157)

Is this where “tech transfer” comes in and the University gets a piece of the departing business or a perpetual licensing agreement?

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Re:Academic Ranks Explained or What on Earth Is an Adjunct? by pca006132 on Saturday April 29, 2023 @08:11AM (#35752171)

It seems to me that from the university's standpoint, a company is considered a plus instead of corruption, i.e. have "real-world" impact, and perhaps the university will have a stake in the company as well (not sure about this). If so, it is a win-win situation for both the university management and the professor, only the student lose, and who cares about that little grad student?

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Re:Academic Ranks Explained or What on Earth Is an Adjunct? by ghaff on Saturday April 29, 2023 @09:14AM (#35752576)

Typically not a stake that I know of but a school like MIT makes a lot of money from technology licensing.

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Re:Academic Ranks Explained or What on Earth Is an Adjunct? by BeetleB on Saturday April 29, 2023 @01:33PM (#35755089)

Universities often benefit from it financially. There almost always is an agreement between the professor and the university.

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