Hiring for prestige reinforces steep and persistent hierarchies in academia
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Who hires whose graduates as faculty and what role does "prestige" play in hiring networks? Eun Lee explains this and more in…
Who hires whose graduates as faculty and what role does "prestige" play in hiring networks? Eun Lee explains this and more in…
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How does your PhD institution affect your chances at a faculty position? Across disciplines, we find steep prestige hierarchies…
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Across disciplines, we find steep prestige hierarchies, in which only 9 to 14% of faculty are placed at institutions more…
Two Stanford University students walk in front of Stanford Chapel in Palo Alto, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul…