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Direct linkKing, Francis P. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1983
Recent legislative and regulatory actions have made retirement policies more complicated. Six major elements appropriate for retirement policy review are addressed: normal-age benefits and goals, mandatory retirement, early retirement, phased retirement, auxiliary retirement savings programs, and retirement counseling. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Counseling, Early Retirement, Higher Education
Download full textKing, Francis P. – Research Dialogues, 1995
The graded payment method of receiving traditional annuity benefits was introduced by the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA) in 1982 to introduce an inflation-fighting factor into the annuity program. Under the graded method, in contrast to the standard method, a part of current annuity dividend income is withheld each year to…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Higher Education, Inflation (Economics), Money Management
King, 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
King, Francis P. – Research Dialogues, 1995
Following the passage of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the increased regulatory burden placed on defined benefit pension plans, the less complex fully funded defined contribution plan emerged as a more attractive and increasingly popular alternative. Traditionally the standard approach to pensions in the educational…
Descriptors: Baby Boomers, Economic Change, Economic Impact, Federal Legislation
King, Francis P. – Research Dialogues, 1993
This paper reports on a study of higher education health-care coverage for retirees including trends in coverage since 1987, major current provisions of institutions' coverage, and program cost controls. A total of 1,6701 institutions responded to a retiree heath-care survey. Among the findings were: (1) 61 percent of colleges and universities and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Employees, Faculty College Relationship, Health Care Costs
King, Francis P. – AGB Reports, 1987
One of the major issues about college retirement programs is that of investment options and transferability of TIAA and/or CREF funds to alternative funds. Basic principles to be considered by college trustees involved in review or revision of their institution's pension plan are discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Fringe Benefits, Governing Boards, Higher Education
King, Francis P.; Cook, Thomas J. – 1980
Fifth in a series and the latest of several studies on employee benefits in higher education, this book constitutes a full-scale revision of the earlier "Benefit Plans in American Colleges" (1969). The principal benefit plans provided by U.S. colleges and universities are described, analyzed, and evaluated. Included are retirement…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Colleges, Compensation (Remuneration), Employees
