A comparison of the benefits of participating in TIAA and CREF retirement programs is offered with emphasis on differences in payout rates and in overall financial performance. (LBH)

Harvard University has found that insuring its retiring faculty for long-term health care was too expensive, blocking implementation of its planned benefits program and potentially affecting the planning of many colleges. (MSE)

An officer of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund responds to an article criticizing the funds' pension policy issues and performance. (MSE)

This bulletin has been prepared by the National Education Association's Committee on Salaries, Tenure, and Pensions in cooperation with the Bureau of Education. Its purpose is to show the extent of the teachers' pension movement in a brief and summary way, and to collect in convenient form pension legislation for public school-teachers in the…

Private schools can "...provide much more attractive retirement benefits for the same cost by funding retirement plans outside Social Security. (Author)

Outlines approaches principals may take in dealing with older teachers who will not have to retire at age 65 but who may not be up to handling a full teaching load. Principals must retain only competent teachers while not discriminating on the basis of age. (IRT)

Six alternative theoretical models are employed to determine the relationship between age and several performance and activity variables for a national sample of doctorate faculty members in 7 selected scientific disciplines. The findings indicate that "steady-state staffing" policies should continue to recognize individual differences and not be…

A research team answers questions about implications of new Financial Accounting Standards Board rules for reporting health and other nonpension retirement benefits. Business and human resources officers are urged to address the issue soon because action taken early can lessen the impact of the rules' impact and improve cost management.…

An expected wave of retirements has some institutions stockpiling professors by hiring them before openings occur, while many colleges and universities worry about the dwindling supply of high-quality faculty candidates. (MSE)

Argues that pension systems have indentured educators by trapping them in jobs they do not want because of vesting requirements and that teachers' unions support these systems for selfish interests. The author offers a pension reform system ("defined-contribution") as a solution. (GR)

Explored nurturance as a gender-based quality in early childhood educators. Responses to interviews indicated that, in spite of a shared commitment to caring for children, each generation's experiences of nurturing varied because of distinctive life and career histories and institutional changes in the nature of teaching. (HTH)

The chief executive officer of the Teachers' Insurance and Annuities Fund-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) discusses the current widespread concern over retirement issues in general and the ending of mandatory retirement ages for college faculty. Changes in TIAA-CREF policies and practices affecting range and coverage of retirement…

Following an earlier survey of the attitudes and activities of academic staff who had retired three to five years earlier, a survey was undertaken of the policies and practices of university authorities in relation to supporting the academic activities of their retired staff. The sample included 21 universities in England and Scotland, and 28…