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Pipes, Lana – 1980
This publication is intended to point teachers at resources that can help them get ready well in advance for retirement. Each section is weighted heavily toward gathering a compendium of useful references for additional reading. After a look in Section 1 at the issues provoked by the graying of America, Section 2 places the teacher in that…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Budgeting, Emotional Adjustment, Health
Patton, Carl Vernon; And Others – 1977
The project reported here studied increased-benefit early retirement programs and mid-career change programs in academic institutions, business, industry, and government. The search and analysis had two objectives: (1) to assemble information useful to colleges and universities; and (2) to assemble information helpful to individual academics. The…
Descriptors: Career Change, College Faculty, Fringe Benefits, Government Employees
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on the District of Columbia. – 1974
This is a comprehensive record of a Congressional hearing on three bills dealing with teachers' pay and retirement benefits in the District of Columbia. Included is testimony on the following measures: H. R. 14662, a bill to authorize the District of Columbia to provide for increases in teachers' salaries and retirement benefits; H. R. 14400, a…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Shapiro, Frieda S. – 1969
A serious problem for retired teachers is the decreasing buying power of their retirement benefit. Older teachers who have been retired for 10 years or more face serious economic problems because of low salaries in the past, weak benefit formulas, lost service credit by teachers who moved from one State to another during their teaching careers,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Economic Change, Financial Needs, Government Employees
Hopkins, David S. P. – 1972
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how certain personnel practices influence the ability of a university to achieve and maintain a desirable faculty rank distribution and new appointment rate when the faculty size is fixed. A mathematical model is formulated that relates faculty size, promotion rates, and tenure and nontenure lifetimes to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Promotion, Faculty Recruitment, Higher Education
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Troutman, James G. – 1976
Since 1972 the national percentage of tenured faculty has risen from 43 to 60 percent, and from 23 to 52 percent at York College of Pennsylvania. The tenure policy has been debated there and nationally, and the college has changed its policy almost annually. This study first established an analytic faculty profile to determine the parameters for a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Employment Qualifications, Higher Education, Mathematical Models
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Inst. for Educational Leadership. – 1977
This is a transcript of a weekly radio "magazine" program devoted to coverage of the field of education. The theme is the American teacher. Discussion includes: (1) a typical day in a first-grade class; (2) a high school English class; (3) student grading; (4) music class; (5) the school lunch program; (6) a retired teacher talks of her future;…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 1, Grading, Lunch Programs
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Finkin, Matthew W. – Journal of College and University Law, 1988
Proposed alternatives to the current tenure system are administratively, legally, and ethically unsatisfactory. If uncapping the retirement of faculty presents significant problems, which is not yet clear, the academic community would be better advised to explore voluntary early retirement programs and policies. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, College Administration, College Faculty, Court Litigation
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Over, Ray – Australian Universities' Review, 1987
Issues of early retirement of college and university faculty are examined as they relate to Australia's aging faculty population, and the conditions necessary to promote early retirement successfully in this context are considered. (MSE)
Descriptors: Aging in Academia, College Faculty, Early Retirement, Educational Change
Bumbarger, C. S.; And Others – Education Canada, 1987
Ascertains what 59 male and 40 female Alberta teachers (average age 50) think about career changes, early and partial retirement. Indicates reasons for career change (personal challenge, additional salary, frustration) and lack of interest in partial retirement. Concludes options for career change should be investigated with younger age group.…
Descriptors: Aging in Academia, Career Change, Early Retirement, Foreign Countries
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Collegiate Employment Research Inst. – 2000
This report reviews the situation public school districts encountered in recruiting teachers for the 1999-2000 school year. Data come from staffing surveys completed by administrators within 216 public school districts. Level of difficulty in finding teachers depended on type of teacher being sought. Elementary, social sciences, and language arts…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Teacher Qualifications
GCCCD Grapevine, 1996
The Grossmont and Cuyamaca Community College Districts (GCCCD) Grapevine is a triannual newsletter free for retirees of the Colleges. Volume 6 of the bulletin includes the establishment of an on-line newsletter; self-sufficiency aims of a new district plan at Cuyamaca College; and a discussion of a dispute between GCCCD's chancellor and faculty…
Descriptors: Administration, Cancer, Community Colleges, Death
Texas Teacher Retirement System, Austin. – 1998
This report presents the Teacher Retirement System of Texas's (TRS's) strategic plan for teacher retirement in the state of Texas for the years 1999-2003. The mission of the TRS is to deliver retirement and related benefits authorized by law for members and their beneficiaries and to prudently invest and manage the assets held in trust for members…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Public Schools
Hussar, William J. – 1999
There will be a need for many newly hired teachers in the United States over the next 10 years as large numbers of teachers are expected to retire and enrollments are expected to increase. This report examines the problem using an algebraic model with no econometric analysis. It uses age-specific continuation rates of teachers from several…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Turnover
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Kreinin, Mordechai E. – Academe, 1982
The involuntary release of about 100 tenured faculty at Michigan State University in 1981 was avoided through implementation of a plan of financial incentives for early faculty retirement. The plan is explained from the viewpoint of its author, with colleague comments included. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Educational Economics, Fringe Benefits
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