Inbreeding Versus Mobility as Faculty Hiring Strategies? A 10-Year Comparative Study on Chile and Korea

• In Event: Faculty Hiring: Gender, Race, and Connections

Abstract

Focusing on selective engineering schools in Chile and Korea, the study explains the two major strategies for faculty hiring in an international and local context: hiring from nations with the more advanced higher education system (mobility) and from their own graduates (inbreeding). The study makes a unique contribution by comparing the trends in these dimensions in the last ten years, intertwined with other changes in the faculty demographics. The preliminary results suggested a significant role of prestigious U.S. institutions as well as an increased level of inbreeding at the PhD level, particularly among the female faculty. The results showed a continued increase in the BA inbreeding, raising important questions for promoting equitable educational systems in the respective countries.

Authors

• Jeongeun Kim, University of Maryland

• Sergio Celis, Universidad de Chile