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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED250999 AUTHOR: Calvin, Allen
TITLE: Age Discrimination on Campus.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1984
JOURNAL: AAHE-Bulletin; v37 n3 Nov 1984
NOTE: 6 p.
AVAILABILITY: American Association for Higher Education, One
Dupont Circle, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036.
ABSTRACT: Issues of mandatory retirement for faculty are
discussed. In 1978, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
was amended to raise the age of forced retirement to 70, but
tenured college professors were exempted from the
protections of the amendment. Arguments raised by advocates
of forced retirement for tenured college professors include:
the decline in the number of 18- to 21-year-olds will
adversely affect college enrollments; older faculty are less
productive than younger faculty; and administrators will be
unable to implement affirmative action programs for
minorities and women unless older faculty are forced to
retire. The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association
College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) recently
surveyed retired annuitants. It was found that 85 percent of
participating colleges and universities ignored the
exemption, and only 21 percent of annuitants had been forced
to retire because they had reached the mandatory retirement
age. TIAA-CREF found that male faculty/administrators who
were retired had an average retirement income of $30,000,
while female faculty/administrators were retired on an
average income of only $20,000. The American Federation of
Teachers and the National Education Association oppose the
exemption for tenured faculty. (SW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Federal-Legislation; Higher-Education
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Age-Discrimination; *College-Faculty;
*Older-Adults; *Teacher-Retirement; *Tenured-Faculty
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