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Adjunct Retirement Insecurity
TIAA-CREF survey reveals adjunct faculty members' concerns about having enough savings to retire. Experts say the situation for most adjuncts is even more dire.
Academics Prepared for Retirement
Higher ed employees plan to retire later than other Americans, but a survey suggests they do more financial planning for that eventuality.
Adjuncts, Retirements and Sexual Harassment: A Survey of Campus HR Leaders
Chief human resources officers overwhelmingly believe their institutions are doing enough to prevent sexual harassment by employees – but are...
Senior (Citizen) Student Debt Rising
Older Americans are increasingly burdened by federal student loans -- and they struggle to repay the debt at much higher rates than their younger counterparts, a new government report finds.
Anticipating Cost Hikes
Unsure about how insurance costs will fare when Affordable Care Act is fully in place, institutions are passing on anticipated cost increases to employees, CUPA-HR survey suggests.
Real Faculty Flexibility
Among ideas discussed at conference: Free cleaning service or catering help in return for service work and use of paid sick days to care for aging parents.
More 'Intentionality' Needed
Adjuncts became the majority teaching force haphazardly over many decades, participants at TIAA-CREF symposium say. Now it's time to focus on creating better ways to employ the non-tenured.
Opinion
Old Mentors Never Die ... or Do They?
Ulf Kirchdorfer offers a paean to the retired professors who mentored him -- and wonders if other people miss their senior colleagues as much as he does.