‘Jarring’ study reveals hiring bias at US institutions.
One in eight tenure-track professors at US institutions got their PhDs from just five elite US universities, according to a study.US universities hire most of their tenure-track faculty members from the same handful of elite institutions, according to a study
“It’s not surprising, but it is jarring” to see these data, says Leslie Gonzales, a social scientist who studies higher education at Michigan State University in East Lansing. “There’s so much brilliant work and training of brilliant scholars that’s happening outside of this tiny sliver” of institutions, including at HBCUs and HSIs — and it’s being overlooked, she says.Nature Human Behaviour, showing that almost 25% of faculty members in the United States have at least one parent with a PhD .
Hiring committees seem to be using prestige as a proxy for excellence on the job, says Kimberly Griffin, dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland in College Park. But ‘prestige’ does not necessarily indicate ‘better-qualified’, and prestigious graduate programmes often admit students on the basis of standardized test scores, letters of recommendation and the renown of their undergraduate degree.
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