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ERIC Number: EJ312133
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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Implications of an Aging Faculty for the Quality of Higher Education and Academic Careers.
George, Linda K.; Winfield-Laird, Idee
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, (Teaching and Aging) n19 p5-27 Sep 1984
A discussion of the threat to instructional quality and the viability of academic careers posed by the aging of the academic labor force examines such issues as student-faculty ratios, tenure, federal legislation contributing to faculty aging, low out-migration, costs, reduction in administrative flexibility, effects on minorities and women, and interventions. (MSE)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Careers, College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Occupational Mobility, Research, Teacher Effectiveness
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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