June 2, 2000
As Professors Age, Retirement Policies Need Rejuvenating
The plate tectonics of the higher-education labor market are shifting rapidly at the start of the century, challenging colleges and universities to confront new and far-reaching issues concerning faculty compensation and resources for teaching and research.
The most elemental change is that the professoriate is aging significantly; nearly a third of the nation's full-time faculty members are 55 years or older, compared with about a quarter of them a decade
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