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Peer reviewedLeslie, David W.; Janson, Natasha – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2005
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the graying of America's college and university faculty coincided with new federal regulations that prohibited mandatory retirement. So in order to both encourage faculty retirements and assume better control of when positions would be vacated about half of all U.S. colleges and universities adopted various…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, College Faculty, Incentives
Download full textRussell, Susan H.; And Others – 1990
This report, based on a survey of 480 academic officers in accredited nonproprietary institutions of higher education, focuses on institutional policies concerning tenure systems, hiring practices, and employee benefits. Survey results are broken down by the following categories: 4-year public, 4-year private, 2-year public, and other (2-year…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Administration, College Faculty, Employment Practices
