Academic Inbreeding as a Challengeable Approach in Recruiting Faculty Members

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Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Malayer University, Malayer, Iran

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Academic inbreeding refers to the approch which universities recurit their graduates as a faculty member directly after doctoral graduation. The main purpose the present paper was investigation the concept of academic inbreeding and its challenges in recruiting faculty members in universities. To achieve this purpose, researcher used the document analysis method and qualitative content analysis to review the evidences about academic inbreeding. The findings showed that academic inbreeding face with challenges including: challenge of academic productivity, challenge of recruitment, and challenge of academic mobility. Thus, policy makers of higher education's systems in order to reduce this phenomenon in their universities should do these actions; banning recruiting own alumni until several years after graduation, revising the traditional methods for recruiting faculty members and moving toward approach of meritocratic in recruitment, fostering internationalization and international interactions in universities and academic departments, increasing academic mobility between inbred candidates, implementing clear procedures and practices for recruiting faculty members.

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