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'Gray'-cious Conclusion to a Career
Whether senior professors have a vibrant end to the later stages of their academic careers is largely in their own hands. Roger Baldwin and Michael Zeig offer guidance for how they can do so.
Who Deserves Affordable Care?
With more institutions cutting adjunct hours as new health care requirements approach, higher education officials are pushing for more guidance from the government on what to do.
Unbalancing Sheets
A change in pension accounting metrics could upend university balance sheets, threatening everything from accreditation to federal financial aid.
Retirement Spike in Illinois
A change in the way the state calculates future pension payments for those in public universities prompted many to retire before July 2, months and years before they planned to do so.
Easing the Path to Retirement
Colleges honored for creative approaches to encouraging professors to consider going emeritus.
Employees Giveth. College Taketh Away.
A year after St. Catharine College employees gave to build a new library, the college cut off retirement fund matching and didn't offer a raise.
Has Cancer, Needs Insurance
An Arizona State grad student's story shows it's still possible for those in college to fall through the health care cracks.
Working Into the Sunset
Survey finds many higher education employees feel overwhelmed and underprepared when it comes to planning for retirement, with almost half reporting they will never retire.