Understanding Patterns of Movement: Job Mobility of Foreign-Born and U.S.-Born Faculty Members

• In Event: 64.088 - Sheraton Roundtable 12 - Osgoode Ballroom
  In Roundtable Session: 64.088-6 - Faculty Mobility

Abstract

This study seeks to understand the mobility patterns of faculty, with particular attention to foreign-born faculty members who work at 4-year colleges and universities in the United States. Examining data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients, the study looks at the mobility patterns of faculty members who held tenure-track faculty positions in 2003, and who responded to the survey again in 2013 (a 10 year time period). After examining different types of mobility, this study concluded that the only significant difference was that, all things being equal, foreign-born faculty members were less likely to move into administration than U.S.-born faculty. Foreign-born faculty members were no different from their U.S.-born counterparts in their mobility to other universities or to business/industry.

Authors

• Dongbin Kim, Michigan State University

• Susan B. Twombly, The University of Kansas

• Lisa E. Wolf-Wendel, The University of Kansas

• Angelina Arcuri Belin, Michigan State University