There's no way people are doing this. I refuse to believe this is real beyond this person.
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I don't understand, is this bad? Ot seems reasonable for me to ask for $ for doing things they don't want to do?
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As a tenured professor, scholarship and mentorship are one of the things you are specifically paid to do by your salary.
It's as if I requested $5 to see students during office hours for my classes.
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Oh but I thought the tweet specified not at their school. I figured if your school is paying you a salary it's not to mentor students from other schools?
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In a literal sense it's not, but you're beeen paid as a scholar for your academic body of work, not for teaching classes.
The stuff you do with your consulting does not pertain to the job, but now you're taking a side hustle of consulting industry and bringing it to main hustle.
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I don't think I understand. is it in the payment contract to teach other students?
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No, it does not say specifically and literally in the contract that you must respond to grad students from other universities and not ask them to pay a fee to engage you.
But if you're reading into it on this literal of a level, quite frankly you're just not going to get it.
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Friend of mine put the norm this way, "Charging grad students for advice though feels like it might be closer to charging people to apply for a job"
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