Complex Networks,
Really interesting work uncovering the hierarchical structure of faculty…
Really interesting work uncovering the hierarchical structure of faculty…
"Across disciplines, we find that faculty hiring follows a common and steeply hierarchical structure that reflects profound…
The faculty job market plays a fundamental role in shaping research priorities, educational outcomes, and career trajectories…
We knew, and now we have the data. " Across disciplines, we find that faculty hiring follows a common and steeply…
“Across disciplines, we find that faculty hiring follows a common and steeply hierarchical structure that reflects profound…
“Across disciplines, we find that faculty hiring follows a common and steeply hierarchical structure that reflects profound…
For those of you interested in academia, I've often said that the prestige of your graduate school is a key predictor of success.
Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005
W internetowym piśmie opinii "Wszystko Co Najważniejsze" prof. Leszek Pacholski, matematyk i były rektor Uniwersytetu Wrocławskie…
What factors dictate whether or not you'll be hired as a tenure-track faculty member? In many cases, it's not a meritocracy. ".
http://bit.ly/1J5ccZq
As many have long suspected, academia is not a meritocracy; elites and cronyism play a very influential role.
As many have long suspected, academia is not a meritocracy; elites and cronyism play a very influential role.
RT AAAS: Scientists find that faculty hiring across disciplines reflects profound social inequality #SciAdvances2015
"A quantitative understanding of faculty hiring as a system is lacking…we present and analyze comprehensive placement data on…
"Across disciplines, we find that faculty hiring follows a common and steeply hierarchical structure that reflects profound…
#CaringCitizens want #EthicalBusiness
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Interesting read for universities and their hiring practices within STEM. http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005
Professors: your PhD school is most predictive of where you are now. "Systematic inequality"? #DataVisualization http://buff.ly…
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The faculty job market plays a fundamental role in shaping research priorities, educational outcomes, and career trajectories…
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Systematic inequality and hierarchy in…
Mostly, you'll have to take a step down in academic rankings from your grad institution to get a faculty position. advances.scien…
Interesting study The faculty job market plays a fundamental role in shaping research priorities, educational outcomes, and…
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The study [linked below], published this week in Science Advances, is based on hand-curated data about placements of 19,000…
This is how you get a "scientific consensus on...well, anything..." ------- "A strong core-periphery pattern has profound…
Systematic Inequality and Hierarchy in Faculty Hiring…
Interesting analysis of the faculty production / hiring network. Not surprising to see how heavily hiring is skewed by PhDs…
"The observed rank changes are also unequally distributed by doctoral prestige and by gender. For instance, a greater fraction…
"Prestige hierarchies are also likely to influence outcomes in other scholarly activities, including research priorities…
The faculty job market plays a fundamental role in shaping research priorities, educational outcomes, and career trajectories…
This paper is already proclaimed to be a living classics in Twitter. Unfortunately, the only things I care in this case are the…
Love the use of the Gini coefficient for inequality in academia :) advances.sciencemag.org
Wow. There was I trying to deal with the dominant sexist elitist discource on education policy aka this insane term "aristia" (wh…
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oh what a big surprise ! :) advances.sciencemag.org
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When Tertiary Educational institutions are have fee deregulation this is the result! advances.sciencemag.org
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"Across the sampled disciplines, we find that faculty production (number of faculty placed) is highly skewed, with only 25% of…
see also joseduarte.com (has an article in BBS with J Haidt of NYU in BBS) --- sortuh 'band of brothers' 9or crews) idiot v.
"How many meritorious research careers are derailed by the faculty job market’s preference for prestigious doctorates? Would…
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"Across disciplines, we find that faculty hiring follows a common and steeply hierarchical structure that reflects profound…
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Thanks, Catherine Taylor Nice companion piece to the Chronicle's recent post. Of course, we all know about it, but it's good to…
For the academics looking for a job, something to bear in mind advances.sciencemag.org
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Although this study looked at PhD placements in computer science, business, and history rather than English, it nonetheless may…
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No surprises here: Job placement for history PhDs is so hierarchical it resembles an old regime aristocracy. The perceived…
the study on hiring inequalities advances.sciencemag.org
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Faculty hiring... advances.sciencemag.org
Top-down academic faculty hiring = nothing new. advances.sciencemag.org
In case you were wondering (!): "These results demonstrate the enormous role of institutional prestige in shaping faculty…
octoral prestige alone better predicts ultimate placement than a U.S. News
"Ideas originating in the high-prestige core, regardless of their merit, spread more easily throughout the discipline, whereas…
Data backs up what is already obvious to many: advances.sciencemag.org
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No surprises there. advances.sciencemag.org
Surprise! advances.sciencemag.org
We guessed so, but now it is systematically surveyed (with the help of networks:): http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e14…
"we find that faculty production (number of faculty placed) is highly skewed, with only 25% of institutions producing 71 to 86…
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"Across the sampled disciplines, we find that faculty production (number of faculty placed) is highly skewed, with only 25% of…
We already knew it, but now it is scientifically proven fact: Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring…
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005
for my academicly oriented friends. Analysis of faculty hiring networks shows that where you get your PhD does matter (a lot).
Nice use of networks and other graphics in an topic that will interest many of you: "Systematic inequality and hierarchy in…
Immensely interesting - if you are working in the academic…
Immensely interesting - if you are working in the academic…
In academia, prestige matters, especially for those intending to join the faculty of any college or university. If you're…
Unfortunately, not really a surprise: Systematic inequality