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Leslie, David W.; Berdahl, Robert Oliver – Review of Higher Education, 2008
This paper presents a case study of the origins, politics, and preliminary outcomes of Virginia's "restructured" relationship between public colleges and universities and the Commonwealth. The initially proposed "charter" status for the state's three historically important universities became the vehicle for a reform that…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Politics of Education, Case Studies, Government School Relationship
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Leslie, David W. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2005
Faculty now have the task of using retirement options creatively, and institutions, of finding common purpose with faculty.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Retirement, Developmental Stages, Age Differences
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Leslie, David W. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2005
Individuals who retire have widely varying needs and differ also in their preparedness for their new conditions.
Descriptors: Retirement, College Faculty, Individual Differences, Educational Policy
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Leslie, David W.; Janson, Natasha – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2005
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the graying of America's college and university faculty coincided with new federal regulations that prohibited mandatory retirement. So in order to both encourage faculty retirements and assume better control of when positions would be vacated about half of all U.S. colleges and universities adopted various…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, College Faculty, Incentives
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Leslie, David W.; Janson, Natasha; Conley, Valerie Martin – New Directions for Higher Education, 2005
Those who address questions about phased retirement policies should see them in a larger context of needs for flexibility in the terms of faculty employment. (Contains 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Retirement, College Faculty, Gender Differences