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Opportunities are available in both public and private schools, and they will be there in the future: half of the nation's 2.5 million teachers in the public schools alone are expected to retire or resign in the next ten to fifteen years. With the increasingly diverse student population, minority...
We mourn the loss of forced retirement, for what keeps an academic institution vital but new ideas? New generations require new blood. Since we will not see mandatory retirement again, however, we urge the University to recommend retirement to all professors over 75, and to encourage them to retire with...
Age alone does not dictate that a professor should be encouraged to retire. While we enthusiastically urge FAS to adopt this practice we would strongly caution department heads to base their use of such incentives solely on the criteria of a professor's abilities. Further, if the Faculty does take...
Age should never be the determining factor in a decision to encourage Faculty to leave. The staff has no evidence--empirical or otherwise--to indicate that age causes incompetence. If anything, we have encountered a positive correlation between longevity and teaching interest and ability. While we encourage all professors to...
Part of the reason faculty may be reluctant to retire, he says, is the sudden change in status that faculty members undergo when assuming emeritus status.