Faculty Inbreeding.(Reprint)(Statistical Data Included) From: Journal of Higher Education | Date: September 1, 1999| Author: Cleveland, Austin Carl; Eells, Crosby Walter | COPYRIGHT 1999 Ohio State University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Faculty inbreeding, or the selection of former students as faculty members of the same institution, is discussed in an article originally published during the 1930s. A 1932 study of inbreeding involving 219 institutions is reported.

Faculty inbreeding, that is, the practice of selecting former students of an institution as members of its faculty, has long been considered one of the fundamental problems of college and university organization in America. It was discussed and its da...

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