Still Working after Age 70: Older Professors in Academe.

Dorfman, Lorraine T.

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ERIC Number: EJ617425

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Publication Date: 2000

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Still Working after Age 70: Older Professors in Academe.

Dorfman, Lorraine T.

Educational Gerontology, v26 n8 p695-713 Dec 2000

Interviews with 17 tenured university professors aged 70 74 showed that most continued to work because they enjoyed it or felt their work was important. Their institutional or departmental environment was positive and they felt little pressure to retire. Most had no plans to retire. (Contains 36 references.) (SK)

Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Motivation, Older Workers, Tenure, Work Attitudes

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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