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Sanfilippo, Jamie Hoag – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The rate of presidential turnover over the past decade has accelerated due to planned retirements, the onset of COVID-19, and the complexities and challenges (e.g., political and social) of providing institutional leadership in the context of higher education. This study focused specifically on Christian higher education, where the leadership…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Christianity, Religious Colleges, Leadership Role
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Maguire, Meg – Scottish Educational Review, 2020
In this paper I want to think about some of the issues involved in trying to do inclusive and socially just education research. I draw on two education research projects that I am involved with. The first project is a small-scale exploratory study with twelve Education academics who are 'staying on' post retirement. The second is a major…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Social Justice, Inclusion, Ethics
Vivek Dubba – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The working retired population is more populated now than ever before in human history. There have been various studies in the area of Information Computer Technology use in the workplace, the area of workforce training, and the area of training of individuals within various age groups, but little to no research addressing the experience of…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Retirement, Older Adults, Training
Lorry Varonica Cotton-Royal – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study addressed the lack of professional development and networking opportunities targeted towards school counselors in rural school districts. To address this problem, this study explored the perceptions and lived experiences of professional school counselors, in rural settings, and their participation in a professional learning community…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Rural Schools, Counselor Attitudes, Professional Identity
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McCausland, Darragh; Guerin, Suzanne; Tyrrell, Janette; Donohoe, Clare; O'Donoghue, Isabelle; Dodd, Philip – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2021
Research indicates that adults with intellectual disabilities are living longer. However, there is limited research on how this affects health and care needs. Objective: The present study aimed to examine the health and social care needs of older adults with intellectual disabilities in Ireland using multiple informants. Methods: Data were…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Caregivers, Social Services, Employment
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Schuman, Samuel – Honors in Practice, 2018
Samuel Schuman writes that in the year after the 1983 national conference in Philadelphia, he had a gripe, and was not hesitant to express it. He wondered why an organization like this one does not do a better job of welcoming and orienting newcomers to Honors. At that point one of the elders of the organization, Dr. John Portz, responded,…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Higher Education, Administrator Responsibility, Deans
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Brown, Janette C.; Jones, Deborah – New Directions for Higher Education, 2018
This chapter describes the types of organizations that have been established in recent years to enhance the experience and engagement of retirees from higher education institutions. Using the University of Southern California as an example, it also introduces a range of strategies institutions can employ to ease the transition into retirement.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Universities, Retirement, Strategic Planning
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Chen, Hung-Chang – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2023
Purpose: This study examines the deployment of excellent retired principals (ERPs) as system leaders to facilitate systemic professional capital building in Taipei City, Taiwan. It explores the unique approach of the Taipei City government and contributions of ERPs in driving educational reforms. Design/methodology/approach: This study combines…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Principals, Retirement, Leadership Role
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Hepburn, Shamette; Sintos Coloma, Roland – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2019
This paper examines how ageing transmigrants engage in practises that serve to decolonise life course in order to create increased opportunities to live well. It analyses the experiences of Jamaican Canadian older adults (age 60 and older) who decided to remain in Canada, return to Jamaica, or travel between countries after retirement. As…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Aging (Individuals), Migration, Foreign Countries
OECD Publishing, 2022
This policy brief is part of a series of thematic policy briefs prepared as part of the OECD's Resourcing Higher Education Project. It examines the frameworks that govern the employment of academic staff in publicly funded higher education institutions in Israel. It compares these frameworks to those in place in comparable OECD higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Resources, Public Colleges, Governance
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Levrant, Robert S.; Loures-Elias, Ana Paula S.; Nathanson, Rebecca; Putney, LeAnn G. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2021
In the present study, we compared the professional culture, mentoring, and work-life expectations of six female emerging professionals in the field of learning in retirement to what they actually have experienced. To date, we have not encountered prior published studies related to emerging professionals in this field and only one study, Peterson…
Descriptors: Retirement, Professional Development, Lifelong Learning, Mentors
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Brotherton, Michelle; Stancliffe, Roger J.; Wilson, Nathan J.; O'Loughlin, Kate – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Background: As part of a larger study exploring the transition to retirement for people with intellectual disability from a working life in mainstream employment, this paper reports on retirement from the perspective of those who have already retired. Method: Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with five Australian retirees with…
Descriptors: Retirement, Intellectual Disability, Employment, Foreign Countries
Purcell, James; McGill, Robin; Brodeur, Philip; Hall, Erin – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2016
The relationship between employer and employee has changed significantly over the past 40 years. One of the greatest changes in this relationship is in the nature of employee retirement. While pension reform at public and private colleges has helped ensure institutional financial viability, retirement security for employees has declined. With the…
Descriptors: Retirement, Employees, Risk Management, Retirement Benefits
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Weisburg, Hilda – Knowledge Quest, 2018
The author believes her professional life can be divided into two parts--being a building-level school librarian and being retired, noting that few librarians she has met planned to enter the profession, and like them, she was an accidental librarian. Though trained to be a high school English teacher, she was offered a job after college as a…
Descriptors: Librarians, Retirement, Masters Degrees, Library Science
Sevier, Charmaine L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Community Colleges were thrust to the forefront to develop, train, and re-train American workers for an altered labor environment. This occurred at a period of time when community colleges experienced their own reductions in workforce due to retirements. The business industry had long been a consumer of succession planning which utilized the…
Descriptors: Occupational Mobility, Employees, Employee Attitudes, Labor Turnover
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