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Peer reviewedChronister, Jay L.; Trainer, Aileen – Journal of Education Finance, 1985
To offset declining enrollments, financial constraints, younger faculties, and high tenure ratios, some institutions are considering early retirement programs to facilitate faculty turnover. A University of Virginia faculty committee reviewed several early retirement options and selected a cost-effective bridging program with ample incentives and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Cost Effectiveness, Early Retirement, Educational Finance
Ferguson, Wayne S. – Executive Educator, 1982
Early retirement plans are perceived as being beneficial to school staff and financially advantageous to schools. Four out of the five assumptions on which these perceptions are based are incorrect. The one correct assumption is that early retirement will make affirmative action programs move ahead more rapidly. The incorrect assumptions are: (1)…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Opinion Papers, Program Effectiveness
Brown, Herb R.; Repa, J. Theodore – School Business Affairs, 1993
School districts offer teacher early retirement incentive plans (TERIPs) as an opportunity to hire less expensive teachers, reduce fringe benefits costs, and eliminate teaching positions. Discusses reasons for teachers to accept TERIP, and describes a computer model that allows school officials to calculate and compare costs incurred if an…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Early Retirement, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives
Polansky, Harvey B. – School Business Affairs, 1990
The development of a retirement incentive plan saves jobs and money. Older and more expensive staff members gain financial benefits, and school districts eliminate positions without laying off staff. Lists 10 steps effective in instituting an early retirement incentive plan. (MLF)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Early Retirement, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives
Bertelsen, Katherine Huggins – 1983
Successful phased retirement plans enable senior faculty to ease into retirement, relieve financial pressures on participating institutions, and permit upward mobility for junior faculty. Responses from 62 of the 72 land-grant institutions in the United States and Puerto Rico reveal that 11 had implemented plans that enable individuals between a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Cost Effectiveness, Criteria, Early Retirement
Rinaldi, Stephen J. – School Business Affairs, 1994
Explores some of the major features of proposed health care plans, which, if enacted, are likely to have a significant impact on school districts' operations, budgeting, and benefits planning. Contains a checklist of key steps districts can take in estimating and planning for the impact of health care reform. (MLF)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Care Costs
Peer reviewedFelicetti, Daniel A. – Educational Record, 1982
Retirement options available to institutions are outlined, including early retirement incentives, phased retirement, facilitating consulting opportunities, travel and outplacement services, maintaining community involvement, annuities, and pensions. Suggestions are made for increasing cost-effectiveness and fitting the options to local…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Consultants, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
