In 1986 the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) was amended to
abolish mandatory retirement for tenured faculty members in colleges
and universities effective January 1, 1994. Will this "uncapping" of
the retirement age adversely affect the vitality of academic
departments or the prospects of advancement for younger scholars? In a
definitive study of faculty retirement in the arts and sciences,
Albert Rees and Sharon Smith seek to answer this question. Basing
their conclusions on original data collected from thirty-three
colleges and universities, they do much to resolve an issue that is a
frequent subject of discussion in the academic world and in the press.
Rees and Smith reveal that the ending of mandatory retirement will
have much smaller effects than those generally anticipated--so small
that there is no justification for efforts to have Congress continue
exempting faculty members from the ADEA past 1994, the date that the
exemption is now due to expire. In addition to their data on
retirement patterns, the authors make use of surveys of senior faculty
and retired faculty to explore attitudes toward retirement. Originally
published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback and
hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to
vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its
founding in 1905.
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9781400862467
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2014
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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