Word: collier
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...Bruce Collier, assistant dean for financial affairs, said last month that if colleges could not be sure that professors would have to retire at a specified age, they might be forced to institute broad reviews of competence that could not legally be limited to faculty over age 65. Such a review could effectively destroy security of tenure, Collier said...
...Bruce Collier, assistant to the dean for financial affairs, said yesterday the bill now in conference would have little immediate effect on the Faculty, which now offers professors at the age of 66 the choice of teaching a half-load of courses for four years or a full load of courses for two years...
...Collier added the bill would "substantially decrease" the number of academic jobs in the country as a whole in the years immediately after its passage. The long-term effect of increasing the teaching life of professors would be more moderate, he said, although "the job picture for PhD's will remain bleak into the indefinite future...
DIED. Dr. Robert Collier Page, 69, founding chairman of the Occupational Health Institute and pioneer advocate of company-paid preventive medicine for blue-collar workers; in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. While studying dying miners in the grimy English town of Leeds in 1933-34, he concluded that management should do everything possible to prevent illness in workers, not just take care of them after they become sick. He put some of his ideas into practice as medical director of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey from 1946 until 1955. Said he: "It is not uncommon to find an executive...
...Collier said yesterday the study shows that if Congress implements the retirement law within the next several years, the "first line impact"--the period during which practically no faculty members currently nearing 65 years of age will retire--will occur when current projections show the academic job crunch will be worst...