LIFE SATISFACTION OF RETIRED PROFESSORS: THE CONTRIBUTION OF WORK,HEALTH, INCOME,AND LENGTH OF RETIREMENT

This study investigates the effects of work, health, income, and length of retirement on the life satisfaction of retired professors. The sample contains 90 professors retired from four midwestern colleges and universities. Results indicate that the life satisfaction of these professors was high. Their life satisfaction was enhanced by an opportunity to continue involvement in selected professional activities when this was desired. Good health and an adequate standard of living also contributed to life satisfaction.     

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College and university personnel are periodically involved in strategic planning. Planning sessions often result in tedious time - consuming exercises that yield slight modifications to, or the reinforcing of, previously developed goals and objectives. Alternative planning methodologies require that organizations become agile and responsive; agile in their ability to adapt and change as stimuli exert pressures, responsive in their actions by meeting needs for excellence and accountability. To meet these challenges, administrators must seek new and innovative strategies that include a wide base of expertise and knowledge. A Future Search conference is such a strategy. It brings together individuals from a variety of backgrounds with the intent of collecting information and of using collective knowledge to design a road map for the future. In January of 1996, Tompkins Cortland Community College used a Future Search conference as an alternative to the traditional planning processes. Conference outcomes and specific recommendations are included.     

What is anthropological research? An interview with Jean Lave by Steinar Kvale

Steinar Kvale has conducted an interview about anthropological research with Jean Lave. The interview focuses on Jean Lave's anthropological field work on apprenticeship among Liberian tailors. It pursues issues such as whether there is an anthropological “method”; the practicalities of doing field work, including the use of interviews; the role of interpretation and theory in empirical work in the field; and the issue of subjectivity in reporting anthropological studies.