Monitoring Institutions of Learning Attended by American Educators
Tracking Tenure-Track Faculty Educational Backgrounds: The Academic Analytics Dataset
A groundbreaking dataset, known as the Academic Analytics Faculty Scholarly Productivity dataset, has been created by researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder. This dataset meticulously compiles detailed information on the education, credentials, and scholarly activity of tenure-track faculty at research universities across the United States.
The Academic Analytics dataset, while not openly listed or linked, is well-known in academic circles as a proprietary dataset often used in studies analyzing faculty hiring and educational networks. Access to the dataset is typically mediated, with potential avenues including contacting relevant departments or researchers at CU Boulder, such as the Office of Institutional Research or the research groups involved in academic labor market studies.
The dataset encompasses information for over 295,000 tenure-track faculty employed at 368 universities from 2011 to 2020. It includes details on faculty rank, institution, year of PhD acquisition, and, when available, gender information.
Interestingly, the dataset reveals that over one in eight faculty received their PhDs from Harvard, University of Michigan, the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, or the University of Wisconsin.
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The dataset is focused on universities granting PhD degrees and spans the period from 2011 to 2020, covering universities from across the United States. For those seeking more precise contact information or suggestions for similar public datasets, please let me know.
The Academic Analytics dataset, used extensively in AI-driven research and education-and-self-development, provides detailed data on tenure-track faculty's education backgrounds and scholarly activities. This information, including the year of PhD acquisition, can aid in understanding faculty learning pathways and network dynamics.
