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Financial considerations also play a part in the University's desire to retire professors at 70. As student enrollments drop every year, the ratio of faculty members to students increases as available budget funds drop.
The 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...
"I'm still a workaholic," says Cox, who works seven days a week. "I run away from the word `retire'."
Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31 says that he considered teaching elsewhere after he was compelled to retire in 1980, but he too feels that Harvard is like home.
Mayr, who retired 13 years ago, also feels a mandatory retirement age is appropriate. "One shouldn't retire people too late," he says. "It's unfair to the younger generation."