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Direct linkDorfman, Lorraine T. – Educational Gerontology, 2009
Little is known about the impact of the end of mandatory retirement on professors over the long term. This follow-up study investigated the ten-year experience of professors who chose not to retire from a major research university after the elimination of the age 70 mandatory retirement in 1994. The initial interview study was conducted in 1998…
Descriptors: Tenure, Research Universities, Content Analysis, Followup Studies
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
