Academic Inbreeding and Mobility in Higher Education: Global Perspectives

by Laura E. Rumbley, Philip G. Altbach, Maria Yudkevich

Book Overview

Academic inbreeding - hiring and promoting one's own graduates - is generally seen as a negative for academic quality and for universities - it is considered as unhealthy for universities as it is in the natural world. Yet it is remarkably widespread across the globe. This book is the first full scale international analysis of the phenomenon of inbreeding. Research from eight countries (including Argentina, China, Japan, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137461241
• ISBN13: 9781137461247
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"