Word: ageing
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Some departments have been affected disproportionately by the lifting of the mandatory retirement age...
Just 6 percent of professors in the humanities who have reached the age of 70 since 1993 remain on active service to the Faculty. More than 58 percent of professors in the same category in the natural sciences continue to teach...
While Mansfield feels that the mandatory retirement law should never have been repealed, he also feels that the retirement age was too low, failing to reflect the productivity of older people...
...Given that we have so few resignations, our slot openings are from retirement," she says. "Most of the people of retirement age are white males...
More difficult is the fact that in the absence of a mandatory retirement age, the University has little recourse to remove those professors who are no longer able to pull their weight...