Crisis and Uncertainty: Did the Great Recession Reduce the Diversity of New Faculty?
| Autor: | Gal Deutsch, Frank Dobbin, Kwan Woo Kim, Alexandra Kalev |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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faculty hiring
Labour economics workforce diversity Resource (biology) ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) media_common.quotation_subject General Social Sciences Public institution economic crisis People of color Recession HM401-1281 Great recession Effects of the Great Recession Sociology (General) recession stem Business media_common Diversity (business) |
| Zdroj: | Sociological Science, Vol 8, Iss 15, Pp 308-324 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2330-6696 |
| DOI: | 10.15195/v8.a15 |
| Popis: | The demographic composition of the U.S. professoriate affects student composition and, thus, the pipeline for professional and managerial jobs. Amid concern about the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the labor market, much remains unknown about how economic downturns affect faculty hiring and the demographic makeup of hires. We examine the effects of the Great Recession on faculty hiring. That crisis walloped the U.S. academic labor market. Tenure-track hires in four-year colleges and universities declined by 25 percent between 2007 and 2009, recovering slowly through 2015. Hires of black, Hispanic, and Asian American faculty declined disproportionately. Public institutions and research-oriented institutions, which faced the greatest resource challenges and uncertainty about the future, made the biggest cuts in the hiring of people of color. Our findings suggest that financial uncertainty led to a reversal in progress on faculty diversity. Faculty and administrators making hiring decisions in the years following the COVID-19 crisis should be aware of this pattern. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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