On July 20, Summer Cowley successfully defender her thesis titled “Prestige and Stratification of the Academic Careers of University Presidents”. Her thesis investigates early advantages in the academic career of university presidents conferred by their terminal degrees.
Her study draws from a hand-curated dataset of 314 presidencies between 1980 and 2021 at Canadian and American universities. Her findings show that PhD prestige was positively related to presidential university prestige in both countries.
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