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Goldberg, Carole E.; Baldwin, Roger G. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2018
Creative approaches to academic retirement can yield benefits for retirees, their institutions, and society at large.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Retirement, Creativity, Retirement Benefits
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Baldwin, Roger G.; Say, Brett H.; Belin, Angie A. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2018
Academic retirement is evolving in a larger context where coalescing demographic, economic, social, and policy trends are calling standard practice into question.
Descriptors: Retirement, Higher Education, Sociocultural Patterns
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Baldwin, Roger G. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2018
This concluding chapter reviews salient points raised in the volume. It considers what stakeholders should play a role in reinventing academic retirement. The chapter also identifies a number of issues each individual retiree must address in order to achieve a successful transition from work life to retirement.
Descriptors: Retirement, Higher Education, Stakeholders, Midlife Transitions
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Baldwin, Roger G.; Belin, Angie A.; Say, Brett H. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2018
Academic retirement no longer follows a consistent, predictable pattern. This trend demonstrates a need to rethink the nature of retirement in colleges and universities to better serve both individual professionals and their institutions.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Retirement, Needs, Higher Education
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Baldwin, Roger G.; Zeig, Michael J. – Innovative Higher Education, 2013
The emeritus college, a recent higher education innovation, provides retired professors with a means to stay intellectually engaged and continue to contribute professionally in retirement. The emeritus college can also help institutions maintain a steady flow of professional talent by making retirement more attractive for senior academics. This…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Innovation, College Faculty, Teacher Retirement
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Baldwin, Roger G.; Zeig, Michael J. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2012
What is an emeritus professor? The emeritus role means different things at different colleges and universities, but generally it has an elusive, ambiguous quality. It may simply mean that a professor has retired with an honorific title acknowledging many years of service to an institution. Or it may mean that a senior professor has transitioned to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Role, Retirement, Professional Identity
Chronister, Jay L.; Baldwin, Roger G.; Conley, Valerie M. – 1997
This study examined retirement and other departure plans of full- and part-time faculty and staff in higher education institutions using data from the 1988 and 1993 National Studies of Postsecondary Faculty. Among the study's findings were: 22 percent of full-time and 38 percent of part-time faculty planned to leave their current position within…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging in Academia, College Faculty, Colleges
Chronister, Jay L.; Baldwin, Roger G. – NEA Higher Education Research Center Update, 1996
This analysis of the retirement plans of college and university faculty and staff used data from the 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty. It first determined the proportion of faculty who are age 55 or older by institutional type, discipline, gender, and minority/nonminority status and then analyzed their retirement plans using the same…
Descriptors: Aging in Academia, College Faculty, Full Time Faculty, Higher Education