The authors write, "we show that faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. Moreover, this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years." Not surprisingly, "Our results suggest that the professoriate is, and has remained, accessible disproportionately to the socioeconomically privileged, which is likely to deeply shape their scholarship and their reproduction." It most also shapes their indifference to open educational resources, their disinclination to support broader access to learning, and ongoing resistance to diversity, equity and inclusion. It also, to my mind, makes a mash of the suggestion that faculty are left-learning. If they are, it is only in comparison with their socio-economic peers, and not society at large. Via Bryan Alexander.
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