How one institution is dealing with the end of mandatory retirement

Academe

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 34-39

  Ehrenberg, Ronald G ^a  

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References (6)

1. For a description of this incident, see Ronald G. Ehrenberg, The Regulatory Process and Labor Earnings (New York: Academic Press, 1979).
2. P. Brett Hammond and Harriet P. Morgan, eds., Ending Mandatory Retirement for Faculty (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1991); and Albert Rees and Sharon Smith, Faculty Retirement in the Arts and Sciences (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991).
3. P. Brett Hammond and Harriet P. Morgan, eds., Ending Mandatory Retirement for Faculty (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1991); and Albert Rees and Sharon Smith, Faculty Retirement in the Arts and Sciences (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991).
4. For a more detailed discussion of the environment in which the university found itself when mandatory retirement was eliminated, the process by which final policy recommendations were reached, and the policy that was adopted, see Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Michael W. Matier, and David Fontanella, "Cornell University Confronts the End of Mandatory Retirement" (paper presented at the TIAA-CREF Conference, "Retirement or Not? Examining Life After Mandatory Retirement," Ithaca, N.Y., June 1998).
5. See Appendix B of the paper by Ehrenberg, Matier, and Fontanella mentioned in note 3.
6. The committee's preliminary and final reports, as well as the provost's final policy statement, are available on the Web 〈www.ipr.cornell.edu〉 under the heading "Occasional Reports."