Download or read book Academic Inbreeding and Mobility in Higher Education written by Maria Yudkevich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic inbreeding - appointing one's own graduates for academic positions - is a controversial but surprisingly common practice internationally. This book is the first comparative analysis of the phenomenon - the causes, implications, and future of inbreeding.