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Erez Cohen; Nitza Davidovitch – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
This study centers on public policy concerning the retirement age in Israeli academia. The purpose of this study is to analyze the justification for the existing policy on this issue that allows academic institutions to end the employment of faculty when reaching the legal retirement age. The research method is based on analysis of the research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Retirement, Older Workers, Higher Education
Dotinga, Randy – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
When it came to benefits for employees, higher education used to be at the head of the class. Back in the 1950s, academe was one of the first fields to embrace health-insurance coverage for illnesses that do not require hospitalization, and it later led the way toward long-term disability insurance. Universities and colleges approved…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Employee Assistance Programs, Fringe Benefits, Retirement Benefits
Keesecker, Ward W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1939
No argument would seem to be needed to prove that knowledge of contemporary legislation affecting education is of a practical advantage to every educational worker and to all citizens of representative government. Under our system it is the prerogative of a State legislature to overcome legal obstacles, or to set up new legal instruments for…
Descriptors: School Administration, Public Education, Private Schools, Federal Legislation