"Study shows extent of hiring bias in academia: 20% of schools produce 80% of tenure-track profs

 Study shows extent of hiring bias in academia: 20% of schools produce 80% of tenure-track profs

Boing Boing by Elías Villoro /

"Faculty hiring networks in the United States exhibit a steep hierarchy in academia and across all domains and fields…."

There are approximately 5,300 universities and colleges in the United States. In 2020, 18.99 million students were enrolled in the U.S, — Read the rest

"Academic Hiring is an Uphill Battle

Academic Hiring is an Uphill Battle

Wired Top Stories by Samuel Arbesman 

Using a new network-based method of ranking departments, you can see the bias and hierarchy of academia very clearly.