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Gross, Alan – Phi Delta Kappan, 1977
Examines professional growth, tenure limitations, and early retirement as methods of balancing age groups in the professoriate. (IRT)
Descriptors: Age, College Faculty, Early Retirement, Federal Aid
Wassermann, Selma – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Education Professor emeritus reflects on 40-year teaching career at Simon Fraser University. Comments on Canada's mandatory retirement for professors at age 65. (PKP)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Mandatory Retirement
Flygare, Thomas J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Implicit in Gault v. Garrison is the idea that forced retirement is unacceptable at any age. An unintended effect of the current forced retirement laws may be a rethinking of tenure laws in an attempt to make it possible to eliminate some older faculty members from our schools and colleges. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Higher Education
