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Does Cluster Hiring Enhance Faculty Research Output, Collaborations, and Impact? Results from a National Study of U.S. Research Universities
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Curran, Michaela; Bloom, Quinn; Brint, Steven – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2020
For U.S. research universities, cluster hiring has become a popular means to add faculty members in university-defined priority fields. The expectation of advocates is that these faculty members will collaborate on high-impact research. Utilizing a national sample of 168 cluster-hire faculty members from eight U.S. research universities, we find…
Descriptors: Teacher Selection, Cluster Grouping, College Faculty, Researchers
Interdisciplinary Cluster Hiring Initiatives in U.S. Research Universities: More Straw than Bricks?
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Bloom, Quinn; Curran, Michaela; Brint, Steven – Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Over the last three decades, interdisciplinary cluster hiring programs have become popular on research university campuses as an approach to fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. These programs have not yet been rigorously evaluated across multiple institutions and multiple thematic fields. The paper reports the results of a survey of 199…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Universities, Cluster Grouping, Administrator Attitudes