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Only a radical change will break our academic monoculture.
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Only a radical change will break our academic monoculture.
New study pushes back on decades of studies suggesting that scientific productivity peaks early and declines thereafter.
Subject: Race on Campus: Why Family Influence Could Be a Problem for Faculty Diversity Welcome to Race on Campus. Who is more likely to become a faculty member — an individual who has at least one Ph.D.-holding parent or someone whose parents don't have graduate degrees? If you guessed the first option, you're correct. Early research shows that this parental advantage may be bad news for colleges that want to diversify their faculties. If you have ideas, comments, or questions about this newsletter, write to me: fernanda@chronicle.com. Faculty members are 25 times as likely as the average ...