Much of the research on faculty retirement focuses exclusively on 4-year institutions. This study fills a gap by describing the age distribution of faculty in public 2-year institutions, the retirement plans of these faculty, and factors related to the retirement decision-making process using data from the 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF: 99). Findings indicate (a) issues related to the graying of the professoriate apply to both full- and part-time faculty members, and (b) faculty expressed considerable receptivity to early and phased retirement. Given these findings, administrators and researchers should track retirement patterns and plans of those employed part-time as well as full-time; and they may want to identify ways full-time faculty could transition to retirement by holding more flexible part-time positions, while allowing some of those employed part-time to transition into full-time appointments.