The reason there's little research is because there is little money and structure in STEM education in general. I have been to multiple name brand uni's that simply do not have basic lab equipment. Some high schools had more equipment and expertise in software than uni's did.
Why? Because education as a business has fundamentally broken incentives. Most educators have never worked in the private industry, or did so for very little time. This means they don't actually know what they're talking about, they just follow courses accreditation allows them to. You will never make as much as a professor in software than you will privately, unless you are in one of the top schools that are inaccessible to the overwhelming majority of the population.
The workplace politics are egregious, because universities are not a meritocracy, universities have created a system where your skin color matters a lot more than your qualifications to conduct your job. For example, someone becoming head of department because they're from India, not because the product of their research or overall conduct in their job was the superior choice. This trickles down, students become the professor, and over time we are now here.
Tech companies are the wealthiest in the world out of any major, yet contribute very little funding. If anything they make a killing off of schools and students buying hardware and software. Look at a company like Apple, that goes out of its way to make exclusivity deals with university chains, yet still charge their artificial $1200 price tag for the mandatory macbook. These students are having the life chocked out of them, why would we expect them to want to keep doing that and do "research"?
Why? Because education as a business has fundamentally broken incentives. Most educators have never worked in the private industry, or did so for very little time. This means they don't actually know what they're talking about, they just follow courses accreditation allows them to. You will never make as much as a professor in software than you will privately, unless you are in one of the top schools that are inaccessible to the overwhelming majority of the population.
The workplace politics are egregious, because universities are not a meritocracy, universities have created a system where your skin color matters a lot more than your qualifications to conduct your job. For example, someone becoming head of department because they're from India, not because the product of their research or overall conduct in their job was the superior choice. This trickles down, students become the professor, and over time we are now here.
Tech companies are the wealthiest in the world out of any major, yet contribute very little funding. If anything they make a killing off of schools and students buying hardware and software. Look at a company like Apple, that goes out of its way to make exclusivity deals with university chains, yet still charge their artificial $1200 price tag for the mandatory macbook. These students are having the life chocked out of them, why would we expect them to want to keep doing that and do "research"?