To Retire or Not? : : Retirement Policy and Practice in Higher Education / / ed. by P. Brett Hammond, Robert L. Clark.

• MitwirkendeR: Clark, Robert L.,; Ehrenberg, Ronald G.,; Fontanella, David,; Ghent, Linda S.,; Hammond, P. Brett,; Hansen, W. Lee,; Holden, Karen C.,; Keefe, John,; Kreps, Juanita,; Matier, Michael W.,; O’Neil, Robert M.,; Raish, David L.,; Smith, Sharon P.,; Switkes, Ellen,
• HerausgeberIn: Clark, Robert L.,; Hammond, P. Brett,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Pension Research Council Publications
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 36 tables

Colleges and universities across the country face huge challenges as their faculties age, their budgets stagnate, and mandatory retirement becomes a thing of the past. In To Retire or Not? the nation's foremost authorities on retirement policy and practice provide a critical assessment of acade...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Introduction: Changing Retirement Policies and Patterns in Higher Education
• 2. Faculty Retirement at Three North Carolina Universities
• 3. Age-Based Retirement Incentives for Tenured Faculty Members: Satisfying the Legal Requirements
• 4. Survey of Early Retirement Practices in Higher Education
• 5. Cornell Confronts the End of Mandatory Retirement
• 6. The University of California Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Programs
• 7. Ending Mandatory Retirement in Two State Universities
• 8. Intangible and Tangible Retirement Incentives
• 9. Faculty Retirement: Reflections on Experience in an Uncapped Environment
• 10. Reflections on an Earlier Study of Mandatory Retirement: What Came True and What We Can Still Learn
• Contributors
• Index