Most US professors trained at the same few elite universities: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02998-w.
“20% of PhD-granting institutions supplied 80% of tenure-track faculty across the country between 2011 & 2020 (‘Hiring bias’).” None were historically Black- or Hispanic-serving institutions.
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@MVEG001: I guess Ph.D.s from other places land better-paying jobs in industry, then...😜
@MVEG001 OMG, I once was at the Stanford graduation parade. shudder shudder....