Posted on 09/22/2022 7:21:38 AM PDT by FarCenter
US universities hire most of their tenure-track faculty members from the same handful of elite institutions, according to a study1. The finding suggests that prestige is overvalued in hiring decisions and that academic researchers have little opportunity to obtain jobs at institutions considered more elite than the ones at which they were trained.
Specifically, the study, published in Nature on 21 September, shows that just 20% of PhD-granting institutions in the United States supplied 80% of tenure-track faculty members to institutions across the country between 2011 and 2020 (see ‘Hiring bias’). No historically Black colleges and universities or Hispanic-serving institutions were among that 20%, says Hunter Wapman, a computer scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder and a co-author of the paper. One in eight US-trained tenure-track faculty members got their PhDs from just five elite universities: the University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; Stanford University in California; and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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This picture of elitism is bolstered by a study published last month in Nature Human Behaviour2, showing that almost 25% of faculty members in the United States have at least one parent with a PhD (in the general population, less than 1% of people have a parent with a PhD). That’s significant because parents with advanced degrees tend to have higher socio-economic status than do those without such education, so upper-class families are contributing heavily to the PhD pipeline, says Aaron Clauset, a computer scientist at UC Boulder and co-author of both papers.
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“Is the system a meritocracy?” asks Daniel Larremore, a computational scientist at UC Boulder who is a co-author of both papers. “In peer review, no; in the spread of ideas, no; and in faculty hiring, surely no.”
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Why am I not surprised?!
After having worked at one of the elite universities I heartily agree with this. It’s definitely about circular ass kissing.
Liberal elites maintain their grip on academia.
Indeed
Most US professors are **trained** at same few elite universities.
Note they didn’t say educated.
Because they're rubbish institutions.
One in eight US-trained tenure-track faculty members got their PhDs from just five elite universities: the University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; Stanford University in California; and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Other than Harvard, I don't see a problem ...
“Elite” doesn’t always mean Marxist. I got my Ph.D. from one of those elite universities but my dissertation director was outspokenly anti-Marxist and anti-Soviet. Undoubtedly he was the exception in his department, but not the only conservative. Neither of my parents had a degree from a four-year college. I don’t know about my fellow graduate students, how many of them had college-educated parents—I remember one was the son of a professor (and he ended up at a “flagship” public university).
They didn’t bother to look at the differences between STEM and non-STEM? I’d suppose MIT and Caltech show up with STEM and Princeton and Yale with non-STEM. Humanities would lean more towards private universities than the big state universities and more towards the East than towards the West and Midwest, but actual data would have been useful.
That is why I qualified by stating “In this application”.
Yes this is no surprise and no mystery. The ruling class has its favored day care centers, and replenishes its ranks from those sources.
There is nothing “elite” about a rat, anti-American programming facility!
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