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Download full textBlackburn, John O.; Schiffman, Susan – 1980
The impact of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act Amendments of 1978 (ADEA) and possible options for adjusting to the impact were estimated for members institutions of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE). Questionnaire information was gathered on active, departed, and retired faculty from 27 individual COFHE institutions.…
Descriptors: Age, College Faculty, Employment Opportunities, Federal Legislation
Institute for Research in Social Behavior, Berkeley, CA. – 1980
Retirement plans and concerns of tenured faculty 40 years old and older were evaluated in 1979. For the sample of 26 member institutions of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, 1,193 faculty members returned usable questionnaires. The evaluation focused on the following: characteristics of the faculty respondents, current circumstances…
Descriptors: Age, College Faculty, Economic Factors, Educational Finance
Novotny, Janet – 1981
Mandatory retirement of college faculty, as affected by the amendments to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), is considered in relation to the changing faculty age profile, retirement strategies to cope with ADEA, and other issues under ADEA. ADEA raised the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70, and tenured faculty were exempted…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Age Discrimination, College Faculty, College Planning
Consortium on Financing Higher Education, Hanover, NH. – 1980
Findings of three reports on the potential impact of age 70 mandatory retirement legislation on the arts and sciences faculties of institutions belonging to the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) are summarized. In a report by J. Russell Southworth et al., faculty flow (departures, new appointments, appointments to tenure, etc.) is…
Descriptors: Age Groups, College Faculty, Educational Finance, Employment Practices
Peer reviewedBleau, Barbara Lee – Research in Higher Education, 1985
A version of the academic flow model analyzed the quantitative effects on faculty composition, compensation, and turnover of implementing seven options. The options were early retirement, change in the probationary period, increased proportions of part-time faculty, unlimited renewable appointments, and nonrenewable fixed-term appointments, and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Contracts, Educational Research, Employment Practices
Clark, Shirley M., Ed.; Lewis, Darrell R., Ed. – 1985
Issues concerning faculty career vitality, including institutional policy options and demographic and external pressures, are addressed in 12 chapters. In the first chapter, Shirley M. Clark, Carol M. Boyer, and Mary Corcoran review theoretical and conceptual issues concerning institutional and faculty vitality. The following chapters and authors…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Career Change, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
McLaughlin, Gerald W.; Spinney, D. L. – 1978
Changes in the composition of faculty with regard to age, tenure status, number of new members, average salary, turnover rate, and percentage of nontenured faculty receiving tenure are of concern to university policy makers. As a result of developments, such as changes in the mandatory retirement age and the limited growth of universities,…
Descriptors: Age, Career Ladders, College Administration, College Faculty
Bruss, Edward A.; Kutina, Kenneth L. – 1980
The impact of alternative institutional policies on faculty mix, salary expense, and turnover is assessed. Guidelines are offered to aid health science school administrators to maintain faculty vitality through a period of retrenchment and new federal retirement law. A "typical" hypothetical school of medicine is simulated using a…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Administration, College Faculty, College Planning
