Huge dataset shows 80% of US professors come from just 20% of institutions
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🗓️ 21 September 2022
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Summary
00:46 Inequalities in US faculty hiring
In the US, where a person gained their PhD can have an outsized influence on their future career. Now, using a decade worth of data, researchers have shown there are stark inequalities in the hiring process, with 80% of US faculty trained at just 20% of institutions.
Research article: Wapman et al.
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