Several recent studies have shown that a large-scale turnover is likely to occur among community college instructors over the next several years, as veteran faculty retire in large numbers. As colleges begin to experience this mass retirement, researchers and administrators must consider the side effects of a faculty turnover, especially in…

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…

This monograph provides complete citations and summaries of literature and studies on factors affecting faculty supply and demand. The monograph is divided into two sections: (1) annotations for approximately 85 articles, books, and reports; and (2) annotations for approximately 75 edited volumes. References include material on the state of the…

This chapter of "The Best of the Best of ERIC," Volume 2, contains 14 summaries of documents and journal articles on reduction in force, all of which are indexed in either "Resources in Education" or "Current Index to Journals in Education." The materials included deal with various aspects of this topic, such as the…

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…