Recruitment, Retention and Retirement in Higher Education

Edited by Robert L. Clark and Jennifer Ma

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This volume examines some of the most pressing employment and compensation issues confronting academic administrators. Contributors discuss topics such as: ageing of faculty, changing economic conditions and shifts in faculty employment patterns, rapid increases in health care costs and trends in retiree health insurance, and adoption of phased and early retirement programs.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
ISBN: 9781845421854
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Changing faculty demographics and the need for new policies

Robert L. Clark

Ch 2 Filling the gap: finding and keeping faculty for the university of the future

Molly Corbett Broad

Ch 3 The changing nature of faculty employment

Ronald Ehrenberg and Liang Zhang

Ch 4 The growing postdoctorate population at US research universities

Jennifer Ma and Paula Stephan

Ch 5 Planning for the generational turnover of the faculty: faculty perceptions and institutional practices

Jerry Berberet, Betsy E. Brown, Carole J. Bland and Carroll- Ann Trotman

Ch 6 The future of retiree health benefits in higher education in the United States

Sylvester J. Schieber

Ch 7 Impact of retiree health plans on faculty retirement decisions

John Rust

Ch 8 Faculty recruitment, retention and retirement: a case study of human resources policymaking at Syracuse University

John L. Palmer, Michael A. Flusche and Myra Z. Johnson

Ch 9 The value of phased retirement

Steven G. Allen

Ch 10 Faculty retirement incentives by colleges and universities

John Pencavel

Ch 11 To phase or not to phase: the dynamics of choosing phased retirement in academe

David W. Leslie and Natasha Janson

Ch 12 Phasing out of full-time work at the University of California

Ellen Switkes

Ch 13 The costs and benefits of early retirement plans

John B. Shoven

Ch 14 Recruitment, retention and retirement: institutional research and the need for data

Michael A. Baer, Deborah A. Freund, Chalotte v. Kuh and Richard R. Spies

Ch 15 Developing new employment and compensation policies in higher education

Robert L. Clark and Madeleine B. d'Ambrosio

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