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A Study Of Phased Retirement Programs At Land-Grant Colleges And Universities And The Development Of Phased Retirement Models For The University Of Tennessee, Katherine Huggins Bertelsen
A Study Of Phased Retirement Programs At Land-Grant Colleges And Universities And The Development Of Phased Retirement Models For The University Of Tennessee, Katherine Huggins Bertelsen
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The University of Tennessee (UT) may face a severe faculty flow problem between now and the end of the 20th Century. Seventy percent of the faculty have tenure. Seventy-five percent of the tenured faculty are between the ages of 35 and 55. If these tenured faculty remain with The University of Tennessee until mandatory retirement, there will be very few faculty slots available for young scholars.
The purpose of the study was to investigate a way for The University of Tennessee to ease this potential faculty flow problem. Specifically, this study examined phased retirement as a possible solution to the …