To offset declining enrollments, financial constraints, younger faculties, and high tenure ratios, some institutions are considering early retirement programs to facilitate faculty turnover. A University of Virginia faculty committee reviewed several early retirement options and selected a cost-effective bridging program with ample incentives and…

Early retirement programs offer individuals an alternative to the work ethic while allowing them to maintain job security. Examples are given of several early, partial, and phased retirement programs currently being used in universities and public school systems. (DF)

As the age of the population continues to increase, faculty retirement issues are becoming more central to campus-level planning and management. Academic planners and senior administrators recognize that there are positive, negative, and unintended consequences associated with various retirement programs and policies, whether they are early…

This survey of 464 junior college teachers from 60 institutions was designed to determine the relative importance to faculty members of four categories of employee benefits--security, teaching, research, and income supplement. (NF)

A conspectus of reported institutional responses together with some critical comments, as a guide for other colleges. (Editor)

Index data is based on detailed budget reports from 1,181 school districts, carefully controlled for geographical location, student population, and expenditure levels. (Author)

This report, part of the School Law Series, contains digests of 97 court decisions compiled from decisions published in the "National Reporter System during 1968. (Author)

Educators now retired from active careers can provide schools with services that they sorely need but cannot offer because of limited staff or lack of funds. This writer outlines how these persons who have both skills and experience can continue to contribute to the schools. (Editor)

Examines a situation facing Wheaton College where half of its English faculty will retire in five years, many will elect to work part-time before then, and only one new faculty member trained in cultural studies and theory has been hired at this point. Focuses on questions of curriculum revision and logistics. (TB)

Options available to college faculty for planning their retirement benefits are described, including defined benefit plans, defined contribution plans, and methods for customizing a pension plan. Data for 1993 on American households owning interest-earning assets (passbook savings, money market deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, checking…

The 1986 amendments to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and tax reforms from that year will require changes in retirement policies in higher education, especially pension plans, because of the extension of nondiscrimination rules to all tax-deferred annuities. (Author/MSE)

Political, social, and legislative forces outside higher education orchestrated and directed congressional action to uncap the mandatory retirement age, paying little attention to the special nature of higher education. Lobbyists for higher education did not greatly affect the ultimate resolution. (Author/MSE)

Discusses issues related to college faculty retirement, focusing on those that would affect a retiring foreign language faculty member from a large institution. The mixed blessings of early- or phased-retirement are explored as well as the importance of tracking and preparing for the transition and the need for rituals and continuation. (CB)

A survey of 115 medical schools concerning early retirement benefits and incentives for faculty found that defined-contribution plans were preferred and were available at 37 percent of institutions. Incentive programs were used by 70 percent of schools during 1987-91. However, few early retirements have occurred. Program characteristics,…

A federal report predicts the end of mandatory retirement for professors will not clog the system with unproductive scholars and will only affect a few research universities. It also concludes that, if federal agencies help colleges prepare, Congress should not continue to exempt tenured professors from the law beyond 1993. (MSE)