Primary Research Group Inc. has published the: International Survey of Research University Leadership: Perceptions of Discrimination in Hiring & Advancement, ISBN 978-1-57440-489-0

The study gives detailed data on how 249 university deans, provosts, administrative and academic department heads and other leaders perceive the problem of discrimination in hiring and advancement at their institutions.  Respondents were drawn from major research universities in the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. 

The study present specific data on how survey participants view the issue of sexual harassment at their institution, and how they view how this term is defined, as well as data on their views of discrimination based on age, gender, social class, sexual orientation, religion, race, ethnicity, handicap and other variables. 

Data is provided for each variable separately. In addition, data in the report is broken out by a broad range of criteria including: age, gender, academic title, and compensation level of respondent, and university ranking, public/private status and country of origin of the respondents affiliated institution. The sample is comprised of deans, provosts, chancellors, trustees, vice presidents, upper level administration directors, academic department heads, and distinguished professors.

Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:

• More than 34% of respondents considered discrimination and bias in hiring to be a problem (28.51%) or a big problem (5.62%) at their institutions. Respondents from institutions ranked highly by US News & World Report (rank < 40) were more likely to see bias in hiring and career advancement as a problem (36.36%) or a big problem (9.09%) than were respondents from other institutions.
• By country, respondents from Australia/New Zealand were more likely to indicate that the definition of sexual harassment in common use at their institution is too broad (16.00%), while no respondents from the UK/Ireland thought the definition is too broad or too narrow.
• Private universities were much less likely than public universities to perceive discrimination at their institution based on sexual orientation,1.92% for private universities vs. 9.14% from public universities.

A PDF version of the report is currently available from Primary Research Group for $98.00 and a print version will be available to be shipped on January 26^th 2018 and can be ordered now; site licenses are also available. To view a table of contents, an excerpt, a list of the institutional affiliations of survey participants ---– go to the product page for this report at: https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=470

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A list of the institutional affiliations of the survey participants is below:

Australian National University

Barnard College

Baylor College of Medicine

Brown University

Carleton University

Carnegie Mellon University

Case Western Reserve University

College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Maryland

Curtin University

Drexel University

Emory University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Griffith University

Imperial College London

James Cook University

Lehigh University

Massey University

McGill University

Michigan State University

Monash University

Penn State College of Medicine

Penn State University