State-Funded “Eminent Scholars” Programs: University Faculty Recruitment as an Emerging Policy Instrument

James C. Hearn, Michael K. McLendon and T. Austin Lacy

The Journal of Higher Education, 2013, vol. 84, issue 5, 601-639

Abstract: Over the past two decades, state governments have increasingly invested in programs to recruit accomplished scientists from elsewhere to university positions. This event history analysis suggests that an intriguing mix of comparative state disadvantage and leveragable existing research resources is associated with the likelihood of states adopting such programs.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2013.11777303

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