Discusses the reasons for considering integration of Social Security benefits into the company pension plan and the approaches to and methods of integration, and how they apply to various types of plans. (Editor/TA)

The executive summary of of TIAA-CREF's Special Trustee Joint Committee's report "TIAA-CREF: The Future Agenda," cites new accumulation funds and pay-out vehicles; transferability of annuity accumulations; reporting, services, and planning for policy holders and institutions; and governance and implementation. (MLW)

Lists steps to increase camp safety, including learning regulations, having written policies, maintaining records, providing staff training, and providing supervision for activities. Also mentions maintaining equipment during camp and during the off-season, understanding types of risks, learning about insurance, and rewarding safety. (SKW)

Faculty unions are enticing new members and hoping to retain older ones with such extras as low-cost credit cards and insurance programs in addition to traditional collective bargaining functions. (MSE)

Describes the complexities of the position of executive director of risk management for Dade County Public Schools (Florida). The director must protect the assets, employees, and students of the fourth-largest school district in the country.(MD)

Discusses precautions which can be taken to minimize loss or damage to library buildings and collections resulting from natural disasters (fires, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, storms). Preventive measures (alarm systems, interior protection), salvage efforts, restoration of collection and library facility, rebuilding collection and…

This SPEC (Systems and Procedures Exchange Center) Kit presents the results of a survey of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries designed to investigate what methods are used to value or appraise research library collections, in order to provide librarians with information useful to them in discussing these issues with their…

A report, written by 54 specialists in management practices, recommends hundreds of ways districts can trim excess fat from more than 20 areas of school operation. This article discusses 13 of them. (Author)

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)

Detailed performance standards should help college food service departments get what they expect from contractor. (Editor)

Faculty members of America's universities and colleges, it is suggested, are finding the real world of academic life increasingly out of tune with the careers they prepared for. Seven faculty members are profiled whose careers illustrate difficulties academics may face at several stages of their lives. (MLW)

A risk management plan is an effective tool for postsecondary institutions to utilize in organizing management of both personal and institutional liability. Important considerations involve criminal and civil liabilities, causes of risk, and integral elements of a good risk management plan. (NRB)

Withdrawal from social security could be detrimental to the long-range welfare of the institution, its employees, and the society in which they function, suggests the author. Legal and financial complications are considered. (Editor/LBH)

The Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 provides vesting requirements for private pension plans but not transfer of vested monies to the new employer when an employee changes jobs. Unless problems of increased employer costs and possible employee benefit losses are resolved, a mandatory portable pension concept is unlikely. (MF)

Difficulties experienced by manufacturers and distributors of school equipment regarding product liability insurance are discussed. (MLF)