August 19, 2008
Keep Your Emeriti Close
How can deans and chairs find appropriate ways to involve retired professors in the life of the college?
An education dean asked my advice recently about how to "handle" retired professors. I was astonished to learn that she, and apparently some of the department heads at her institution, viewed emeritus faculty members as a nuisance.
"They're like the proverbial bad penny," she told me. "They keep coming back around, and they interfere in departmental business as if they still
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