Synopses & Reviews
By the year 2000, 50 percent of full-time faculty will be over 55, and 68 percent will be over 50. Just when many universities and colleges in America are making major shifts in their missions and their organizational structures, faculty members who are expected to implement these bold new visions will be out signing up for their senior citizen discount cards. Is it any cause for alarm?
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments -- Senior faculty and institutional vitality -- The case of Stephen Abbot -- The productivity of senior faculty -- Looking inside for vitality: internal factors affecting the productivity of senior faculty -- Looking outside for vitality: institutional factors affecting the productivity of senior faculty --Conclusions and themes to guide approaches to the vitality of senior faculty -- Approaches to faculty and institutional vitality -- Appendix: citical reflections on the studies cited in the monograph.