About the Author
Valerie Martin Conley is associate professor of higher education and director of the Center for Higher Education at Ohio University. She formerly held positions in institutional research and with statistical research and consulting firms. She is co-editor of New Ways to Phase into Retirement: Options for Faculty and Institutions, and author of Exploring Faculty Retirement Issues in Public Two-Year Institutions. She is a member of the AAUP’s Committee on Retirement.
Co-Sponsors
This survey was co-sponsored by the American Council on Education, the American Association of Community Colleges, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the American Association of University Professors, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, and the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
Financial Support and Data Collection
The TIAA-CREF Institute, the research foundation sponsored by faculty retirement insurance provider TIAA-CREF, and the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute generously financed the survey. Data collection, which occurred in 2006, was conducted by the Survey Research Institute at Cornell University.
AAUP Committee on Faculty Retirement, 2005–06 to 2006–07
Janet M. West (Economics), University of Nebraska at Omaha, chair
Valerie Martin Conley (Higher Education), Ohio University
Joseph Felder (Economics), Bradley University
Karen C. Holden (Consumer Science), University of Wisconsin–Madison
David S. Linton (Communication Arts), Marymount Manhattan College
Judith Wishnia (History), State University of New York at Stony Brook
Ronald G. Ehrenberg (Labor Economics), Cornell University, consultant
Wendi A. Maloney, AAUP Staff and Editor
Special Thanks
Special thanks to John W. Curtis, the AAUP’s research director, for attending the meeting of the committee in which members developed survey questions and for drafting the survey questionnaire. Thanks also to Wisdom Mensah, a graduate research assistant at the Center for Higher Education at Ohio University for helping to produce an initial draft of this report.
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(2/15/07)