Word: briens
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President Derek C. Bok, the deans of the University's various faculties, and administrators from other schools are working to devise solutions to handle a tenure system which would be clogged up with aging professors if the mandatory age is abolished in 1993, said Thomas O'Brien, financial vice president...
...Brien says one alternative is an early retirement plan, similar to ones at Stanford and Washington University of St. Louis. "Professors could be offered increased pensions, other economic incentives, and half-time teaching" arrangements in exchange for retirement at 70, he says...
...University is also studying the idea of a system to evaluate annually the competence of tenured faculty members. "How will you be able to retire someone for failure to perform when the [current] tenure system does not involve the evaluation of professors from year to year?" asks O'Brien...
...Anyone who is looking at this question knows it is not an easy one, but instead is a very sensitive problem that must be treated very carefully," O'Brien says...
...Brien emphasizes instead that the first task is to build a consensus that something must be done, rather than adopting any particular solution...