Really? Why? As someone who works in academia, I don't see why anyone would need access to my or my colleagues' DNS logs, but I understand things might be different in industry.
That's not to say that those choices reflect good architectural design, to be sure quite the opposite. But like many things in enterprise IT risk management, it comes down to where you spent your money, and things like DoH/DoT force will force certain organizations to admit "a lot in the wrong place".
I wouldn't blame or ride on academia. If you have no data worth exfiltration, experiments worth sabotaging or industry affiliations you might be right.