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Care and feeding of older faculty and staff.(Universities finds ways to attract older faculty)
"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64?" Folks who were young when the Beatles first sang those lyric are getting to 64 themselves, and are considering whether to work on or retire.
Back then most 64-year-old professors or college staff--like other workers--were fast approaching mandatory retirement. That form of age discrimination became illegal in 1994.
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As baby boomers and working wives expanded into the workforce faster than the market could absorb them, employers scrambled to motivate long-time staff to retire voluntarily. Early retirement let colleges cut costs with cheaper, younger faculty and staff, including more adjuncts and part-timers.
Now a changing workforce poses the opposite challenge. Universities need ways to attract and retain older workers, Cathy Leibow said at the College and University Work/Family Association (CUWFA) 2005 conference in Atlanta.
As president of FamilyCare Inc. in Pleasanton CA, she's trying to raise employer awareness of the importance and needs of older workers. "Some organizations get it and others aren't even thinking of it because it's not in their face," she told WIHE.
Changing demographics
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...developments in research pass by increasingly older faculty, leaving universities in a less competitive...the sclerotic effects of an overwhelmingly older faculty? Would older faculty be able to keep up with the generational and...
- Ending Mandatory Retirement for Tenured Faculty.
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...by fears that delayed retirement of older faculty would raise costs and lower quality...Committee acknowledges both concerns. Older faculty do tend to be near the top of the salary...still have a very small percentage of older faculty if it had grown recently and many young...
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...difference between them lies in their respective views of older faculty and other employees. Preserving Human Capital "In the first...certainly need a new diversity of employment patterns, as many older faculty will prefer part-time or occasional teaching, research...
- Labor Studies.(Brief Article)
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...information on retirement flows between 1986 and 1996 among older faculty at a large sample of four-year colleges and universities...universities will experience a significant rise in the fraction of older faculty in the coming years. Davis and Willen develop and apply...
- Higher Education.
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 23, 1990 700+ words
...Under the circumstances, the challenge may not be persuading older faculty to leave, but rather finding enough top-notch faculty...employment patterns," Wharton continued. For example, older faculty may prefer part-time instead of full-time assignments...
- An Exploration of job stress among academic heads in Taiwanese...
- Magazine article from: Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal Chang, Cheng-Ping Tseng, Ya-Mei June 1, 2009 700+ words
...between age and job stress. For example, Chiu (2004) found that younger age was correlated with higher job stress and that older faculty members experienced higher job stress with regard to interpersonal relationships. (d.) There are no significant correlations...
- SUNY'S BRAIN DRAIN IS CAUSE FOR ALARM.(MAIN)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) June 26, 1995 700+ words
...attrition since at least 1987, when I arrived. As I was hired into a department that by chance had a disproportionate share of older faculty members, I have seen it lose close to one-third of its staff while enrollments rose considerably. Few of the vacated...
