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“You Need To Allow Yourself To Grieve That Loss And That Identity.” College Athletes’ Transition To Life After College Sport.”, Clare Manthey, Jimmy Smith

Journal of Athlete Development and Experience

Only a small percentage of collegiate athletes compete at the professional level of sport after they graduate, leaving most athletes to transition out of a life involved in sport. Research reviewing life after competitive sport for college athletes and the consequences associated with such a transition is plentiful, however, additional research also argues that life transition research is necessary to maximize the understanding of such a phenomenon. A case study approach used Schlossberg’s Theory of Transition (2011) to research recently retired collegiate college athletes and their time transitioning away from competitive college sports. Several themes emerged from the qualitative results …

Embracing The Tension: A New/Ancient Approach To Problem Solving, Rick Olsen

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

This workshop will illuminate four important concepts and approaches to problem solving and problem navigation. Participants will then work individually and collectively around problems of shared interest to deepen their understanding of these concepts. The running example by the facilitator will be faculty retirements.

The Lived Experiences Of Sports Retirement Among Elite, Action Sports Athletes, Gracie Struthers

Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses

This study explored the lived experiences of sports retirement among elite, action sport athletes. This study examined participants’ retirement experiences, their well-being post-retirement, and recommendations participants had for current athletes about retirement. Interviews were conducted remotely with four participants. Participants identified as Caucasian, in the 25–38 age range, had been involved with their sport competitively for 17.75 years, and had been retired for 3.37 years. Data was collected and analyzed utilizing Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Participants’ experiences during retirement illustrated a significant disruption in their lives and the way they lived. This disruption was characterized by significant grief and distress, …

Service-Learning "Planning For Retirement" Presentation, Tyler E. Tisdale

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

This project sought to understand the reasons/variables for the lack of participation in planning and saving/investing for retirement by the younger generations that are a part of the current workforce. The problem was defined, and the approach was to create a presentation that established the foundational knowledge for retirement investing among high school students (the individuals who are just about to enter the workforce). The presentation was made, along with a short survey, and sent out to high school teachers in Idaho and Texas. The results presented that there is a fundamental lack of knowledge with regards to the subject …

Charolette Allison, Longtime Ouachita Staff Member, Left Legacy Of Service To Six Presidents, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Charolette Allison, a longtime Ouachita staff member who served 31 years alongside six Ouachita presidents, passed away June 28 at age 74.

Mrs. Allison, a former Ouachita student, served in the president’s office from 1986 to 2017, working in the administrations of Dr. Daniel Grant, Dr. Ben Elrod, Dr. Andy Westmoreland, Dr. Rex Horne, Dr. Charles Wright and Dr. Ben Sells. In conjunction with her retirement last spring, the university’s Board of Trustees named her executive secretary to the president emerita in honor of her years of service.

Employee Perspectives: Exploring The Journey From Paid Work To Retirement Due Onset Of A Dementia, Catherine L. Andrew, Lyn Phillipson, Lynnaire M. Sheridan

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Abstract presented at the Occupational Therapy Australia 27th National Conference and Exhibition, 19-21 July 2017, Perth, Australia

I Hope, Mai Trinh

SURGE

As I have gotten older, I have learned that no matter how hard I try, I am never going to be able to repay my mother for everything that she did for me. The blood, sweat, and tears she put into nurturing the sick and troublesome, five-year-old me, the rebellious and lazy fifteen-year-old me, and the clumsy, and sometimes lost me now, are insurmountable. I know she had more trouble raising me than she was supposed to. I know her first five years of being a mother did not include taking me to the park, sitting down on a park …

Does Retirement Mean More Physical Activity? A Longitudinal Study, Xiaoqi Feng, Karen Croteau, Gregory Kolt, Thomas E. Astell-Burt

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Background Evidence on physical activity (PA) and transitions out of full-time employment in middle-to-older age is mainly cross-sectional and focused upon retirement. The purpose was to examine trajectories in PA before and after transitions out of full-time employment. Methods Data were obtained for 5,754 people in full-time employment aged 50-75 from the US Health and Retirement Survey. Logistic regression was used to examine trajectories in twice-weekly participation in light, moderate and vigorous PA among those transitioning to part-time work, semi-retirement, full retirement, or economic inactivity due to disability, in comparison to those remaining in full-time employment. Results Twice weekly participation …

Susan Atkinson Succeeds Jundy Jones As Ouachita Registrar & Director Of Admissions, Trennis Henderson, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

"Judy Jones is highly respected both on campus and throughout the state for her work over the last 20 years as Ouachita's registrar and director or admissions," said Dr. Stan Poole, vice president for academic affairs. "We deeply appreciate the outstanding service she has given to Ouachita faculty, staff and students over these years. We wish her the very best ass she transitions to retirement."

Obu Trustees Elect Two New Faculty Members, Honor Keck And Webster As Emeriti Professors, Trennis Henderson, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Ouachita Baptist University trustees approved two new faculty members and honored two retiring professors during the university's quarterly Board of Trustees meeting on the Arkadelphia campus. The two new faculty, Myra Ann Houser and Allyson Phillips, were named to Ouachita's Sutton School of Social Sciences effective this fall. Houser was named assistant professor of history and Phillips was named assistant professor of psychology. The two retiring faculty members, Dr. Ouida Keck and Dr. Robert L. Webster, were named emeriti faculty.

The Contribution Of Forced Medical Retirement To Symptoms Of Depression, Anxiety And Stress In Law Enforcement Officers, Kimberley Blackmon

Theses and Dissertations

This research explored whether a statistically significant difference exists between symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress in police officers who were forced into medical retirement as compared to those who retired after years of completed service. The sample population of retired police officers as well as the appropriate testing instruments for these targeted individuals is discussed. In addition, the dissertation addresses how the survey determined the type of retirement they were subjected to (voluntary or involuntary) and any depressive or other psychological symptoms since that retirement. The findings from this study show that a statistically significant difference exists in the …

Differences In Learning Motivations Of Professionals And Nonprofessionals Participating In Two South Mississippi Institutes For Learning In Retirement, Constance Marie Farmer

Dissertations

This study investigated the differences in learning motivations of (a) professional and nonprofessional, and (b) urban and rural members of two south Mississippi Institutes for Learning in Retirement (ILR) programs in an attempt to expand C. O. Houle's conceptual model of continuing professional education into the retirement years and to determine if the life transitions of the older adult unite the learning orientations of these subpopulations into self-actualizing (growth) motives as part of the maturation process identified y Abraham Maslow.

Ninety urban ILR and 60 rural ILR members were recruited. Professional was defined as having completed a bachelor's degree or …

Retirement And High Level Human Capital, Irving Gershenberg

Gerontology Institute Publications

Given that demographic trends in economically advanced industrial countries such as our own continue to shift toward increasingly older, formally retired populations, we need to find ways to keep more of this older retired population productive. Economists and others differ in their estimation regarding the ability and/or willingness on part of the retired to retain, let alone utilize the know-how, the human capital accumulated prior to retirement. This is as true for those who have spent their work life engaged in producing and communicating new ideas and synthesizing and diffusing what is known, those who have accumulated what I term …

Retirement And Re-Entry Decision-Making: A Faculty Perspective, Seth Zimmer

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Universities are faced with an aging workforce and threatened with deficits in number and quality of replacements for retirees. New policies and programs affecting retirement and workforce re-entry are taking shape. This points to the need for research on the factors used by faculty members in the retirement decision-making process.

Faculty are somewhat unique in that their university roles and responsibilities often allow them to be professionally active simultaneously in other settings. The usual concept of retirement becomes somewhat blurred where faculty members are concerned.

The decision of when to retire and whether or not to re-enter the workforce must …

Letter From Dorothy Schumann Plantholt To Eleanor Snell, May 22, 1970, Dorothy Schumann Plantholt

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

This letter from Dorothy Schumann Plantholt congratulates Eleanor Snell on the occasion of her retirement from Ursinus College and remarks on Eleanor's professionalism and friendship.

Speech Notes For Eleanor Snell's Testimonial Dinner, May 22, 1970, Marion B. Earle, Vonnie Gros

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

These are typed notes for speeches given at Eleanor Snell's Testimonial Dinner.

Letter From Hugh Scott To Eleanor Snell, May 22, 1970, Hugh Scott

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

This letter from U. S. Senator Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania congratulates Eleanor Snell on the occasion of her retirement from the faculty of Ursinus College.

Letter From Marjorie Clarson Grauch To Eleanor Snell, May 22, 1970, Marjorie E. Clarson

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

This letter from Marjorie Clarson, Ursinus College Class of 1950, congratulates Eleanor Snell on the occasion of her retirement from Ursinus College.

Letter From Jan Wickerham To Eleanor Snell, May 22, 1970, Janet S. Shoemaker

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

This letter from Janet Shoemaker, Ursinus College Class of 1946, congratulates Eleanor Snell on the occasion of her retirement from Ursinus College and remarks on memories from the World War II college years.

Eleanor Snell Testimonial Dinner Program, May 22, 1970, Testimonial Committee

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

This four page program lists the speakers and events held at the Eleanor Snell retirement dinner on May 22, 1970 in Valley Forge. It includes Eleanor Snell's coaching record.

Letter From Joyce Gilbert Sipple To Eleanor Snell, May 22, 1970, Joyce Ann Gilbert

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

This letter from Joyce Gilbert, Ursinus College Class of 1959, congratulates Eleanor Snell on the occasion of her retirement from Ursinus College.

Telegram From Betty Kirlin To Doris Abrams, May 21, 1970, Elizabeth A. Kirlin

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

This telegram from Elizabeth A. Kirlin, Ursinus College Class of 1944, expresses gratitude to Eleanor Snell for her teaching of interpersonal skills and respect for others.

Telegram From Richard Schweiker To Eleanor Snell, May 21, 1970, Richard Schweiker

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

This telegram from United States Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania congratulates Eleanor Snell on the occasion of her retirement from the faculty of Ursinus College.

Letter From Peggy Morrow To Eleanor Snell, May 20, 1970, Margaret Morrow

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

This letter from Margaret "Peggy" Morrow, Ursinus College Class of 1945, congratulates Eleanor Snell on the occasion of her retirement from Ursinus College and remarks on Eleanor's character.

Letter From Jean L. Horwood To Eleanor Snell, May 19, 1970, Jean Leety

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

This letter from Jean T. Leety, Ursinus College Class of 1952, congratulates Eleanor Snell on the occasion of her retirement from Ursinus College.

Letter From Betty Dando To Eleanor Snell, May 18, 1970, Betty Brown

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

This letter from Betty Brown, Ursinus College Class of 1945, congratulates Eleanor Snell on the occasion of her retirement from Ursinus College and remarks on Eleanor's far-reaching influence on young women.

Letter From Alice Young To Eleanor Snell, May 18, 1970, Alice P. Irwin

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

This letter from Alice Irwin, Ursinus College Class of 1959, congratulates Eleanor Snell on the occasion of her retirement from Ursinus College and remarks on Eleanor's influence on women's athletics.

Letter From Peggy Keagle Thomas To Eleanor Snell, May 12, 1970, Margaret K. Keagle

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

This letter from Peggy Keagle Thomas, Ursinus College Class of 1943, congratulates Eleanor Snell on the occasion of her retirement from Ursinus College and remarks on Snell's personal dignity.

Letter From Joanne Duncan To Eleanor Snell, May 12, 1970, Joanne Duncan

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

This letter from Joanne Duncan, Ursinus College Class of 1950, congratulates Eleanor Snell on the occasion of her retirement from Ursinus College and remarks on Eleanor's coaching.

Letter From Raymond P. Shafer To Eleanor Snell, May 12, 1970, Raymond P. Shafer

Eleanor Frost Snell Programs, Correspondence and Other Documents

This letter from Pennsylvania Governor Raymond P. Shafer congratulates Eleanor Snell on the occasion of her retirement from the faculty of Ursinus College.