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One in eight tenure-track academic members working at the nation's higher education institutions were trained at just five U.S. universities, according to recent data from the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Boulder). The study examines the composition of the American professoriate in the most thorough manner to date. In fact, it collects information from 2011 to 2020 on about 300,000 tenure-track faculty members at more than 10,000 university departments at 368 PhD-granting schools (including where they earned their own graduate degrees). The article will appear in the journal Nature today, September 21. "Until you actually evaluate the data, it's difficult to gauge just how significant the discrepancies in higher education are." Dan Larremore According to the report, the majority of academics hail from a select group of academic institutions across all disciplines. It's the first thing instructors mention in their bios. However, until you actually evaluate...