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Fried, Stephen B.; Mehrotra, Chandra M. – 2000
Covering 10 topical areas, this annotated bibliography offers a guide to journal articles, book chapters, monographs, and books useful for teaching diversity and aging through active learning. Active learning experiences may help expand students' awareness of elements of their own diversity, broaden their world view, and enhance their culturally…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adult Education, Aging Education, Aging (Individuals)
Ingersoll, Richard M. – 1999
This analysis examines the effects of school and organizational characteristics on teacher turnover and, in turn, school staffing problems. The analyses are based on data from the Schools and Staffing Survey and its supplement, the Teacher Followup Survey, a large, comprehensive, nationally representative survey of teachers and schools conducted…
Descriptors: Career Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Satisfaction, Labor Turnover
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Wandner, Stephen A. – 2000
Unemployment compensation in the United States is provided through a federal-state system of unemployment insurance (UI). UI provides temporary partial wage replacement to active job seekers who are involuntarily out of work. For older workers, UI is an important source of income security and a potential influence on work incentives. For example,…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Futures (of Society), Labor Force Development
Kandel, I. L. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The educational movements that have been taking place in Great Britain during the past two or three years have aroused widespread interest among teachers and publicists in this country. This report is an attempt to analyze these movements and to indicate their significance in the broader movement for reconstruction. The educational reforms that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Secondary Education, Modern Languages
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Hutcheson, Philo – Thought & Action, 1997
Argues that higher education's response to change is resulting in the disappearance of tenure, and provides a bibliography of actual institutional and faculty decisions in relation to tenure since the mid-1970s. Focus is on six issues: changes in the meaning of tenure; management of tenure decisions; financial exigency or discomfort; faculty…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Faculty, Diversity (Faculty), Educational Trends
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Curran, William M. – College & Research Libraries, 2003
Discusses the impending shortage of academic librarians as current librarians retire, based on research in Canada and the United States. Topics include experience and expertise; hiring, retention, and professional development; succession planning that includes management experience; chances for advancement into progressively responsible positions;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Aging in Academia, Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections
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Hoover, Dwight W. – History Teacher, 1988
Describes the process of creating a slide-tape show which outlines the culture of Middletown (Muncie, Indiana) during the 1920's and 1930's. Presents the program developed by the Center for Middletown Studies (Ball State University) for use in elementary schools and retirement or nursing homes. Urges the completion of similar projects in other…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Audiovisual Instruction, Community Information Services, Elementary Education
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Zipkowitz, Fay; Futas, Elizabeth – Education for Information, 1993
Describes a study of library and information science faculty done to determine the need for replacements resulting from retirements and other withdrawals. The prediction of a serious depletion of faculty resources in library schools before 2001 is based on information gathered on age, gender, experience, and retirement plans. (14 references) (EAM)
Descriptors: Aging in Academia, Career Planning, Doctoral Degrees, Employment Opportunities
Ginsburg, Sigmund G., Ed. – 1993
This book presents human resources issues that will affect the financial management of colleges and universities as they move into the 21st century. It examines how business managers and human resources managers must balance human resources management policies and practices against the financial demands on the institution. It discusses the…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Finance, Employment Practices
Janicki, Matthew P.; Keefe, Robert M. – 1992
An assortment of 38 case studies illustrates efforts to integrate elderly individuals with developmental disabilities into generic aging services and into community life. The case studies include models and practice experiences that aided seniors to retire, participate in programs and services, and become part of their community's aging network.…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Adult Programs, Aging (Individuals), Case Studies
Gill, Judith I.; And Others – Research Dialogues, 1992
This publication reviews and analyzes the research on issues affecting faculty supply and demand in higher education and looks at how recent research can assess future trends. An introduction describes many researchers' prediction that three trends will soon create a faculty shortage: (1) increasing faculty retirements based on extensive hiring…
Descriptors: Aging in Academia, College Faculty, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Lassen Community Coll. District, Susanville, CA. – 1988
The collective bargaining agreement between the Lassen Community College District Board of Trustees and the Lassen College Federation of Teachers/California Teachers Association/American Federation of Teachers is presented. This contract, covering the period from July 1988 through June 1991, deals with the following topics: bargaining agent…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Contracts
O'Neill, Joseph P.; Grier, Phillip M. – 1984
Perspectives concerning the effective use of a small college's resources and assets in a time of declining government support and decreasing enrollments are presented. Attention is directed to improving cash flow, staff reduction and early retirement, external sources of long-term financing, college financial student aid, and managing real estate…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Educational Finance, Employment Practices, Expenditures
Winter, Gene M.; And Others – 1990
In 1990, a study was conducted of full-time faculty, deans, chairpersons, and academic administrators at the State University of New York (SUNY) community and technical colleges. The purpose of the study was to profile these groups and to identify future academic personnel replacement needs. A survey questionnaire mailed to SUNY's 30 community…
Descriptors: Administrators, Aging in Academia, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Dickson, Carol Anne, Ed. – 1984
These proceedings consist of 14 papers some of which are followed by responses or discussant comments. The papers are: Thrifty Food Plan: New and Improved" (Cude, Walker); "Automated Teller Machines: Perceived Impact on Consumer Spending" (Greninger, Kitt, Hampton); "A Comparison of the Attitudes and Behaviors of Utah Men and Women in Their Roles…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Automation, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education
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