Retirement Incentives

How to help faculty members view retirement as an opportunity, not a threat.

For UCLA’s new faculty liaison, retiring “doesn’t mean you walk into the forest and die for the sake of the tribe.”

Colleges provide a roadmap to all of the stages of the academic career except for one: the end.

Colleges are using a variety of approaches to make retirement an attractive option for tenured faculty members. Here are seven examples. Phased retirement Bentley University allows faculty members to phase into retirement over a few years by working less for the same or reduced pay. The process…