{"id":1657775,"date":"2022-09-26T06:53:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1657775"},"modified":"2022-09-26T06:55:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:55:04","slug":"study-reveals-hiring-bias-at-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-reveals-hiring-bias-at-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Reveals Hiring Bias at Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudy-reveals-hiring-bias-at-universities%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1657775&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-05222-x\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> in the journal Nature has found that U.S. universities hire most of their tenure-track faculty members from the same handful of elite institutions. The finding suggests that academic researchers have \u201clittle opportunity to obtain jobs at institutions considered more elite than the ones at which they were trained,\u201d a summary of the study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-02998-w#ref-CR1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">states<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To gather their data, researchers looked into the academic backgrounds of 295,089 faculty members at more than 350 institutions. They found that 80% of all U.S.-trained faculty received their doctorate at just 20.4% of universities. The five most popular universities\u2014UC Berkeley, Harvard, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Stanford\u2014accounted for one in eight faculty members.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis also showed that, depending on the academic field, only 5\u201323% of faculty members worked at an institution deemed more prestigious than the one at which they earned their PhD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not surprising, but it is jarring\u201d to see the data, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-02998-w\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Leslie Gonzales, a social scientist who studies higher education at Michigan State University in East Lansing. \u201cThere\u2019s so much brilliant work and training of brilliant scholars that\u2019s happening outside of this tiny sliver\u201d of institutions, and it\u2019s being overlooked, Gonzales added.<\/p>\n<p>Another recent study on elitism in U.S. high education, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-022-01425-4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Human Behaviour<\/a>, showed that nearly 25% of faculty members in America have at least one parent with a PhD. In contrast, less than 1% of people in the general population have a parent with a PhD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs the system a meritocracy?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-02998-w#ref-CR1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">asked<\/a> Daniel Larremore, a computational scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder and co-author of both papers. \u201cIn peer review, no; in the spread of ideas, no; and in faculty hiring, surely no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most prestigious academic programs admit students based on a combination of standardized test scores, letters of recommendation, and the prestige of their undergraduate degree. Some experts argue that these factors unfairly limit who can be accepted into such programs and ultimately restricts the scope of scientific research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a huge amount of literature that says who is in the scientific community affects what research questions are asked,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-02998-w#ref-CR2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Aaron Clauset, a computer scientist at CU Boulder and co-author of the two papers. \u201cBy not being as diverse as we could be, as inclusive as we could be, we are losing smart people who could change the world for the better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study in the journal Nature has found that U.S. universities hire most of their tenure-track faculty members from the same handful of elite institutions. 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