“Invisible colleges” is an interesting (and unnerving) new term to discover.https://twitter.com/Write4Research/status/1182217367566336001 …
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Replying to @chenoehart
That was vague and the graphs were unhelpful, but I think I get what they’re talking about. If you backtracked phd advisors of authors from all papers on a topic in any field you’d get a small cluster. That’s just how research grows. The social justice stuff feels bolted on.
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Replying to @vgr @chenoehart
In the 1970s, I was being courted as a potential PhD student in English at Michigan State University. So I decided to research my job prospects if I went that route. 1/x
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I went to the library and looked at the college catalogs for every U of X and X State U. Virtually everyone in every English Depts came from: Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, Northwestern, Chicago. 2/x
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(Yes, there were exceptions that proved the rule.) My point? It's not invisible. It has always been quite visible. Faculty and students at non-elite public institutions have been lying to each other for decades. It's a good case study in counterfactual mass delusion. 3/x
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Yes, I eventually got a doctorate, paid for by someone else, in a different field, for different reasons, later in my career. But a fifty year moratorium on Harvard, Yale, & Chicago grads in higher ed would be a major step forward toward intellectual diversity in the USA. 4/4
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Yes, it’s highly visible. I was told in a faculty job search seminar that 90% of faculty positions go to phds from the top 10 in the field. It’s sort of inevitable. Preferential attachment etc. Investment returns (VC firms) get institutionalized that way too.
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