Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Abstract
Colleges and universities are encountering an interesting conundrum in today’s fast-paced and aging culture. Faculty demographics are changing radically as the professorate ages and “the first 77 million baby boomers turn 60 next January.” (Friedman and Moen 2005). The impact of this demographic shift was described by the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (2000), when they projected that by 2010, more than 30,000 full-time and part-time faculty will be replaced. In addition, the authors of the study projected the need for an additional 15,000 new hires to teach the roughly half million new students who will be entering higher education.
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Lindbeck, Robin and Darnell, David
(2008)
"An Investigation of New Faculty Orientation and Support Among Mid-Sized Colleges and Universities,"
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal: Vol. 6:
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2, Article 3.
DOI: 10.58809/VFWT3905
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