By Andy Thomason. Looking for some reading material on for-profit colleges in Florida? The Miami Herald has you covered, and then some. The newspaper just released the results of an extensive investigation into the sector’s presence in the state, complete with some eye-opening findings. More...
Tenure, Not Hiring, Is Chief Bottleneck to STEM Faculty Diversification
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “Faculty Hiring and Tenure by Sex and Race: New Evidence From a National Survey”
Authors: Mark R. Connolly, associate research scientist, and the assistant researchers You-Geon Lee and Julia N. Savoy, all at the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research
Summary: The researchers examined the career trajectories of people with doctorates in the STEM disciplines — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — and related fields to try to determine why women and black or Hispanic people remain especially underrepresented in college faculty positions in those areas. The analysis used recent data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients, a long-term National Science Foundation study that collects information on doctoral recipients in the STEM fields, social sciences, psychology, and economics over the course of their lives. More...