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Leslie, David W.; Janson, Natasha; Conley, Valerie Martin – New Directions for Higher Education, 2005
Those who address questions about phased retirement policies should see them in a larger context of needs for flexibility in the terms of faculty employment. (Contains 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Retirement, College Faculty, Gender Differences
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Janson, Natasha – New Directions for Higher Education, 2005
Phased retirement policies are more or less attractive financially and more or less accommodating of individual differences. They are also implemented in varying ways, variations that especially affect departments and academic programs.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Retirement, Individual Differences, Educational Policy
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Leslie, David W.; Janson, Natasha – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2005
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the graying of America's college and university faculty coincided with new federal regulations that prohibited mandatory retirement. So in order to both encourage faculty retirements and assume better control of when positions would be vacated about half of all U.S. colleges and universities adopted various…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, College Faculty, Incentives