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March 29, 2017
The Vitality of Senior Faculty Members: Snow on the Roof-Fire in the Furnace
- Author
- Bland, Carole J. and William H. Bergquist
- Publisher
- ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report, George Washington Univ. Press, Washington, D.C.
- ISBN
- 1878380796
- Table of Contents
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Foreword
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
References
Index
ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Reports
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 singing up for their senior citizen discount cards. Is it any cause for alarm? (From the Publisher)