Opinion: The province should work with universities to ensure corporate consulting does not interfere with the integrity of research, academic independence, and transparency in our public policy-making process.
Recently, an academic took to Twitter and called for a crackdown on “professors who are really professional expert witnesses.”
While it would be easy for Canadians to dismiss this as something that only happens in the United States, it is going on in our own backyard. Our publicly funded universities have full-time professors, who earn a salary and enjoy pension benefits, with a side hustle that can equate to multiples of their salary. Our professional schools, where students pay a hefty premium to attend, are particularly fertile ground for this.
There is some benefit to consulting with the corporate sector, especially for business school professors. As Prof. Wu points out, “The defense is that a professor can contribute or learn by doing expert work.
There is no question that corporate interests are involved in Canadian academia. Our provincial ministers of colleges and universities should work with our university presidents to ensure the corporate consulting mill does not interfere with the integrity of research, academic independence, and transparency in our public policy making process.
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