Academic Inbreeding: A Risk or Benefit for Universities?

Academic inbreeding is a recruitment practice for universities of hiring their own graduates as future academicians. Despite its benefits, it may have damaging effects on the academy. From this point view, qualitative research investigated whether academic brings benefits to or poses risks. It was also purposed determine how academicians define and experience in daily practices. To end, twenty were interviewed, data analyzed with content analysis technique. Results revealed that while few underlined most manifested risks negative experiences. Thus, recommended mobility among staff should be encouraged.