Preliminary Conference Agenda
By Invitation Only
April 2004
Thursday, April 1, 2004
8:00 am - Continental Breakfast
8:30 am - Welcome
Madeleine d'Ambrosio
Executive Director, TIAA-CREF Institute
9:00 am Session One: Why We Are All Here
Changing Faculty Demographics and the Need for New Policies
Abstract | Full Paper
Robert L. Clark, Professor of Business Management and Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University
Professor Clark set the stage, presenting national data on trends in hiring, retirement rates, and on the changing age structure of university faculties. He looked at how past hiring patterns and changes in human resources policies have altered present faculty characteristics, highlighting the implications for institutions' recruitment, retention and retirement strategies and decisions.
9:45 am Session Two: Recruiting New Personnel
This session examined emerging alternatives to the typical hiring and career paths of faculty in the past. These alternatives offer institutions with opportunities to reduce some of the costs related to hiring faculty who are tenured for life. The alternatives also have implications for the provision of employee benefits, including retirement plans and health plans. The hiring of tenure track faculty is not going away, but change is underway and must be considered in planning for the future.
The Changing Nature of Employment Contract
Abstract | Full Paper
Ronald G. Ehrenberg,Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics, Cornell University
and Director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute
Liang Zhang, Ph.D. Student in Economics and Research Assistant at the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute
The Growing Postdoc Population at U.S. Research Universities
Abstract | Full Paper
Jennifer Ma, Senior Research Fellow, TIAA-CREF Institute
Paula E. Stephan, Professor of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Discussant: Richard B. Freeman, Herbert S. Ascherman Professor of Economics, Harvard University
11:15 am Break
11:30 am Breakout Session I
Discussion Leader:
Jack H. Schuster, Professor of Education and Public Policy, Claremont Graduate University
Discussion Leaders:
Jennifer Ma, TIAA-CREF Institute and Paula E. Stephan, Georgia State University
Discussion Leader:
Jerry Berberet, Executive Director, Associated New American Colleges
Discussion Leader:
Ernst Benjamin, Retired General Secretary and Director of Research, AAUP
Discussion Leaders:
Scott Evans, Chief Investment Officer, TIAA-CREF
Brett Hammond, VP, TIAA-CREF
Martha Peyton, Managing Director, TIAA-CREF
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Keynote Address
Filling the Gap-Finding and Keeping Faculty for the University of the Future
Molly Broad, President, University of North Carolina
2:00 pm Session Three: The Importance of Retiree Health Plans
This session will examine the increasingly important role health insurance is playing both on the institutional and individual sides of recruitment, retention and retirement decisions. Speakers will provide information and encourage the exchange of ideas about what employers are doing and might do to continue to provide access while managing
costs.
Institutional Factors and the Future of Retiree Health Plans
Abstract | Full Paper
Sylvester J. Schieber, VP, Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Impact of Retiree Health Plans on Faculty Retirement Decisions
Abstract
John Rust, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
Discussant: Deborah A. Freund, Vice Chancellor and Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Public Administration, Syracuse University
3:30 Break
3:45 pm Breakout Session II
Discussion Leader: Barbara McNeil, Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard University
Discussion Leader:
John L. Palmer, University Professor, Syracuse University, and Public Trustee for Medicare and Social Security
Discussion Leader:
Edward Moslander, VP, TIAA-CREF
Discussion Leader:
Deborah Bell, Executive Director, Professional Staff Congress at CUNY
Discussion Leaders:
Scott Evans, Chief Investment Officer, TIAA-CREF
Brett Hammond, VP, TIAA-CREF
Martha Peyton, Managing Director, TIAA-CREF
4:45 pm Panel Discussion: Institutional Research and the Need for Data
This session will discuss how important it is for institutional
decision makers to formulate plans based on quantification and analysis of hiring and retiring patterns on campus. Sources of data will be identified and ways to
collect additional data will be discussed.
Moderator: Deborah A. Freund, Syracuse University
Panelists:
Michael A. Baer, Senior VP, Programs and Analysis, American Council on Education
Charlotte Kuh, Deputy Executive Director, the Office of Policy and Global Affairs, National Academies of Sciences
David E. Shulenburger, Provost and Professor of Business, University of Kansas
Richard R. Spies, Executive VP for Planning/Senior Advisor to the President, Brown University
6:00 pm Reception
Remarks by Herbert M. Allison, Jr. Chairman, President, and CEO, TIAA-CREF
Friday, April 2, 2004
8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 am Session Four: Phased and Early Retirement
With the end of the mandatory retirement in 1994, many universities and colleges have resorted to other means to encourage retirement-age faculty members to retire. This session will examine the use of several retirement incentives
such as early and phased retirement programs among universities. This session will also examine the impact of these programs on faculty retirement patterns.
The Value of Phased Retirement
Abstract | Full Paper
Steven G. Allen, Associate Dean College of Management and Professor of Business Management and Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University
Faculty Retirement Policies of Colleges and Universities
Abstract | Full Paper
John H. Pencavel, Pauline K. Levin, Robert and Pauline C. Levin-Abraham Levin Professor in Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Discussant: Joseph F. Quinn, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics, Boston College
10:00 Break
10:15 Breakout Session III
Discussion Leader:
Mark V. Pauly, Bendheim Professor; Professor of Health Care Systems, Business and Public Policy, Insurance, and Risk Management, and Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Discussion Leader:
John B. Shoven, Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics and former Dean of Arts and Sciences, Stanford University
Discussion Leader:
Ronald W. Frisch, Associate Vice Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh
Discussion Leader:
Robert Abramowitz, Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP
11:15 pm Concluding Session: Defining an Action Agenda
12:00 pm Conference Ends
