June 13, 2008

U. of North Carolina Lets Professors Ease Their Way Into Retirement

By AUDREY WILLIAMS JUNE

Lawrence L. Kupper, a biostatistics professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been a faculty member there since 1970.

But after nearly 40 years of teaching and research in the School of Public Health, Mr. Kupper sees retirement in his future — June 2010, to be exact. Last July he entered "phased retirement": a university program that lets him work half time with benefits, in return for giving up tenure.

"I think being a professor is the best

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