> This tells me the author has no knowledge of the academic hiring processes. Once you are at the stage of looking for tenured faculty jobs, your publication re

> This tells me the author has no knowledge of the academic hiring processes. Once you are at the stage of looking for tenured faculty jobs, your publication record is everything. While this may be true, the fact remains that most academic hires are from the top universities, even for jobs at state universities. If professors are the least susceptible to prestige, then why do we have the situation we do?