Nathan Greenfield — How Institutional Prestige Shapes Faculty Hiring

This post is an article by Nathan Greenfield about how institutional prestige shapes faculty hiring. It was published recently in University World News.  Here's a link to the original. He's reporting on a remarkable study by Daniel Larremore and Hunter Wapman, which involved "300,000 faculty members in 10,612 departments in 368 PhD-granting American universities."  What …