A handful of universities seem to control flow of ideas, people in academia nature
, takes the most exhaustive look yet at the structure of the American professoriate—capturing data on nearly 300,000 tenure-track faculty at more than 10,000 university departments at 368 Ph.D.-granting institutions from 2011 to 2020.
Take the five schools producing the most U.S. professors: the University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University; University of Michigan; Stanford University; and University of Wisconsin-Madison. These institutions, Larremore and his colleagues calculated, trained more U.S. faculty than all universities outside of the U.S. combined. Across academia, 80% of tenure-track faculty earned their doctorate degrees at just 20.4% of the nation's universities.
Larremore added that he hopes U.S. universities will see the results as a wake-up call:"Quantifying and shedding light on these trends will help us change the system."To inform that long process, Wapman, Larremore and their colleagues drew on data from the Academic Analytics Research Center to build a network of the flows of people between universities.
That datapoint creates a connection between CU Boulder and UNM like a spoke in a bicycle wheel, just one of hundreds of thousands in the team's network. "Many inequalities in the system are rooted in hiring, but they're exacerbated by attrition," he said.
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