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Download full textKing, Francis P. – Research Dialogues, 1994
Until the beginning of 1994, federal law permitted mandatory retirement of tenured faculty at age 70. The Committee on Mandatory Retirement in Higher Education, formed by the National Research Council, was charged by Congress to examine potential effects on colleges, universities, and faculty members of ending the exemption for tenured faculty…
Descriptors: Age, Age Discrimination, Aging in Academia, College Faculty
Heim, Peggy – 1992
A study was done of the savings patterns and financial resources of households receiving teacher's retirement insurance benefits. For the survey a mail questionnaire was sent in fall 1988 to a statistically drawn sample of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund annuitants. Over 900 questionnaires were completed…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Family Financial Resources, Financial Needs, Fringe Benefits
Palmer, Bruce A. – Research Dialogues, 1993
This paper presents a method for higher education faculty and staff to assess pension plan objectives by determining a retirement income replacement ratio to maintain the salary-based preretirement standard of living. The paper describes the RETIRE Project which researches income replacement using the federal government's annual "Consumer…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Family Financial Resources, Financial Needs, Fringe Benefits
Cook, Thomas J. – Business Officer, 1981
Information on provisions of group life insurance plans and the tendency of colleges and universities to provide this coverage is considered. There has been an increase in the percentage of institutions adopting group life insurance plans over the last decade. Absence of coverage is concentrated among smaller two-year and four-year institutions…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Eligibility, Fringe Benefits
Hammond, P. Brett – Research Dialogues, 1996
This issue examines inflation protection for pensions in the 1990s and beyond. It describes how providers of retirement services can offer participants opportunities to improve inflation protection through product design, services, and educational programs. It explains the use of inflation-indexed (real bonds), noting the potential role for such…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Financial Policy, Foreign Countries, Fringe Benefits
King, Francis P. – Research Dialogues, 1996
This issue describes the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) life-annuity income options and traces the trends in their selection over a 17-year period, 1978-1994. Other income-related choices at or before retirement are also explored. The article emphasizes that participants in defined…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Economic Factors, Financial Needs, Fringe Benefits
Heller, Michael; King, Francis P. – Research Dialogues, 1994
This paper describes a method of projecting inflation-adjusted (real) retirement benefit replacement ratios for defined contribution retirement plans such as TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association--College Retirement Equities Fund). The illustrated ratios are comparable to the ratios in defined benefit plans that result…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Fringe Benefits, Higher Education, Inflation (Economics)
Phillips, Mary Ellen; And Others – Research Dialogues, 1992
This paper analyzes four personal financial planning "expert systems," which institutions of higher education might offer their employees. Such computerized planning systems, like comprehensive plans and professional planners, help families manage their assets and obligations during their lifetimes and plan for distributing their wealth…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Employees, Employment Practices
Leech, Irene E., Ed. – Consumer Interests Annual, 1999
This document contains 4 invited papers, 21 refereed papers, 15 reports accompanying refereed posters, 8 reports from invited paper sessions, and 4 reports from invited panel sessions. Selected papers are as follows: "Managed Care Benefits Consumers" (Smith); "The Paradox of Managed Care" (Lieberman); "How Much Is Enough:…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adult Education, Case Studies, Consumer Economics
