July 24, 2011
Senior Professors: Not When to Retire, but How
Vanessa Vick for The Chronicle
James Gilbert, a historian at the U. of Maryland at College Park, led a campus committee on retirement as he put his own phased-retirement plan into action.
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Vanessa Vick for The Chronicle
James Gilbert, a historian at the U. of Maryland at College Park, led a campus committee on retirement as he put his own phased-retirement plan into action.
College Park, Md.
At the University of Maryland at College Park, several senior professors have spent much of the past academic year engaged in a conversation whose time, they knew, had come.
They had all seen the graying of the faculty there, and they knew that a steady trickle of retirements was imminent. But at Maryland, as on many other campuses, senior professors are often uncertain about exactly how to retire. And when they do, they often feel cut off from the institution where they have
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