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Policy-Related Issues and Recommendations
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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
Easing the Exit: An Aging Professoriate Likes Options
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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
The Costs and Benefits of Phased Retirement
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Leslie, David W. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2005
Individuals who retire have widely varying needs and differ also in their preparedness for their new conditions.
Descriptors: Retirement, College Faculty, Individual Differences, Educational Policy
New Ways to Retire
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Leslie, David W. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2005
Faculty now have the task of using retirement options creatively, and institutions, of finding common purpose with faculty.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Retirement, Developmental Stages, Age Differences