Colleges Explore New Ways to Manage Retirements

Autor/in	Wheeler, David L.
Titel	Colleges Explore New Ways to Manage Retirements
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2008) 40, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Working Hours; Retirement; Governance; College Governing Councils; College Faculty; Retirement Benefits; Incentives + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hours of work; Arbeitszeit; Pensionierung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Hochschulrat; Fakultät; Retirement pay; Ruhegehalt; Anreiz
Abstract	At colleges, presidents, provosts, and even faculty senates are taking a fresh look at how to manage professors' retirements. A few institutions that have sought to trim their tenured-faculty ranks for other reasons offer early lessons for those institutions that want to encourage retirements. Many institutions are doing just that, using managerial tools such as buyouts and "phased retirement," or the gradual reduction of work schedules. However, there is one challenge: Professors actually like their jobs, and often do not want to leave them. This article suggests that for college leaders trying to steer their institutions through some tricky political shoals as colleges come under attack for high costs, low accountability, and a failure to meet labor-force needs, the wave of retirements may be an opportunity to get a better grip on the wheel. The situation, says Paul J. Yakoboski, a principal research fellow and retirement scholar with the TIAA-CREF Institute, "creates the opportunity for the universities to rethink their offerings and how to provide them." (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10