TY  - JOUR
TI  - Academic Inbreeding: Pro and Contra
T2  - Educational Studies Moscow
IS  - Educational Studies Moscow
KW  - higher education
KW  - highschool graduates
KW  - university systems
KW  - personnel policy
KW  - university professors
AB  - The article discusses the positive and negative effects of colleges’ practice of hiring their own alumni. The authors review empirical research that analyzes the prevalence and effect of this phenomenon in various educational systems, and the difference in the behavior between insiders and outsiders. To illustrate the ‘upbringing phenomenon’ characteristic of Russian universities, the authors use data collected in interviewing teachers and department heads from 28 faculties of universities in St. Petersburg. All these faculties award degrees in economics. The article investigates how the colleges’ policy of hiring their own alumni affects the strategies and values of university teachers.
AU  - Elizaveta Sivak
AU  - Maria Yudkevich
UR  - https://archive_vo.hse.ru/en/2009--1/26550892.html
PY  - 2009
SP  - 170-187
VL  -