Advisory committees: free advice--for a price

Although it is understood that an advisory committee is "a group of persons outside the educational institution chosen from the community to advise those who are responsible for the planning, implementing, and maintaining of an educational program in radiologic technology that will meet the needs of a community, region, state, or nation," it is advice we buy at a price. No, the price is not in monetary values, but the price of forethought, planning, good organization and effective use of that committee.