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.
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