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The son of a Royal Air Force officer who was a veteran of the Second World War, Lowe grew up on military bases and spent his childhood Christmases in places such as Jordan and Cyprus. "It would have been 104 degrees outside," he said by phone from London, "but it wouldn't stop us from eating a gigantic Christmas lunch — turkey and potatoes, even though the turkey might possibly come out of a tin. There were three toys — three for the boys and three for the girls — and we all got the same three presents."
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According to the DEA-produced Illegal Drug Price/Purity Report, the average potency of sinsemilla in 1995 was 6.66 percent THC. The average potency of so-called commercial grade marijuana, which contains leaves, stems, seeds, and male plant products, was half that. Hydroponically grown pot surely accounts for most of the high end: A June 1996 report from a division of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) places the THC level of domestically grown sinsemilla in Miami at eight to fourteen percent. One street name for hydroponic pot sums up the power factor: "The Bomb."
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Dan Viets, a Missouri defense lawyer and chairman of the board of NORML, has a theory about the emphasis on potency these days. "It's a matter of driving the public-policy debate," he argues. "I think that police are seeking to advance their prohibitionist position -- they're trying to heighten the hysteria. They're trying to heighten the concern that the public might have about marijuana."
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Yang, Liu and Thomason, James (2012) Development and application of micromechanical techniques for characterising interfacial shear strength in fibre-thermoplastic composites. Polymer Testing, 31 (7). 895–903. ISSN 0142-9418
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The development of single fibre pull-out and microbond tests for characterising interfacial strength in thermoplastic composites is reviewed in detail. Manufacture of an experimental jig and sample preparation regimes for both tests are described. The challenges addressed in the sample preparation include the measurement of embedded fibre length for pull-out samples and the low yield rate of axisymmetric resin droplets obtained during sample preparation under nitrogen. The applications of these laboratory developed techniques are demonstrated by characterisation of the interfacial shear strength (IFSS) of glass fibre-polypropylene (GF-PP) and natural fibre-polylactic acid (NF-PLA). The comparison of the IFSS between neat and modified GF-PP showed that both methods were sensitive to the interfacial performance change despite the poor agreement between them for the absolute IFSS values from the same composite. The effect of the material modification was also reflected in load-displacement curves with different behaviour of the frictional motion after complete debonding. When a high level of fibre-matrix adhesion was realised in the composites with weak fibres, the microbond test showed higher feasibility for characterising the IFSS. This was clearly shown in its application to NF-PLA.
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We previously covered a study on how Memory Training Aids ADHD. Thanks to Eidi Neurolerning Blog the software used to train children's memory has been identified as RoboMemo from a company called CogMed based in Sweden. The training takes five weeks and costs £690 GBP.
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This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (March 2013) |
F. William Parker is an American character actor.
He appeared in the following television series: The West Wing (as Rev. Al Caldwell), NYPD Blue, The X Files, Married... with Children, Seinfeld, Murphy Brown, Wings, Newhart, Alice, General Hospital, Dynasty, Taxi, Barney Miller, Archie Bunker's Place, CHiPs, The Jeffersons, Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days, Little House on the Prairie, The Love Boat, The Bob Newhart Show, Good Times, The Golden Girls and The Waltons.


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These filles francaises are making their country proud. Keep an eye out for them around town, but beware, we all know just how friendly French girls can be!
Charlotte Casiraghi: At 21, Charlotte (daughter of Princess Caroline) is bringing back the glamour to the Principality of Monaco. We love her because she is beautiful, brainy (brilliant student and pianist), and discreet… dare we say, a role model? Give up the ciggies Charlotte, and you've got the job!
Eva Green: At 27, this bond girl is having a break-out year. Dividing her time between London and Paris, she is a captivating actor with a quintessentially french sense of style. We shall never forget her performance in Bertolucci's The Dreamers.
Lou Doillon: At 24, Lou has the looks and acting talents of her mother, Jane Birkin (the most beloved expatriate in France). With a distinct rock n' roll style and tomboyish attitude, she's the kind of girl you'd like to be friends with… if she weren't so fierce!
Julia Restoin-Roitfeld: At 25, we can only imagine the upbringing this girl got from her editor-in-chief Mom, Carine. After graduating from Parsons in May, Julia will work in art direction for fashion publications. We're sure she'll still manage the yearly trip to St. Barth's.
Marie de Villepin: At 21, this daughter of politician Dominique de Villepin ditched her econ studies at Paris-Dauphine and hit the runways. Snapped up by Givenchy for the new fragrance Ange ou Demon, we're having a hard time deciding if Marie has a naughty side herself: gossip reports suggest a recent make-out session with a female friend chez Maxim's! What would Daddy think?


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The San Francisco Jazz Center Presents:
World music sensation
The SF Jazz Center
201 Franklin St. (at Fell), San Francisco
from Thursday, December 12 through Sunday, December 15
The Saturday, December 14th - 7:30 pm show is co-sponsored by KPFA.
Tickets range from $25 to $65 - The show is almost sold out!
For more event and ticket information, visit www.sfjazz.org
Only a unique confluence of cultural influences could produce an artist as strikingly original as Buika, who has earned a devoted cadre of fans and collaborators ranging from celebrated filmmaker Pedro Almódovar to musicians Seal, Rachelle Ferrell, Anoushka Shankar and Nelly Furtado. Born in Spain to parents in political exile from Equatorial Guinea, she grew up on the Spanish island of Mallorca. She was exposed to great jazz singers by her mother and forged a breathtaking, soul-drenched vocal style combining traditional Spanish coplas with the Gypsy laments of flamenco and jazz improvisation. A commanding performer with a husky, crushed-velvet voice, Buika saw her career catch fire in 2009 with El Último Trago, a collaboration with Cuban piano giant Chucho Valdés. And during Chick Corea's recent month-long residency at the Blue Note in New York, Buika was featured in his stunning flamenco ensemble. This date marks the SFJAZZ Center debut by an important young figure in global music.


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Director of the School of Music Candidate Presentation
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Howard Hall, Room 184
Howard Hall, Room 184
Paul Hankins, candidate for the Director of the School of Music, will be making a public presentation on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at 4:00 p.m. in Rm 184, Howard Hall. Paul Hankins is currently serving as Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Delta State University. He holds the D.M.A from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He was previously Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at Delta State.
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Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of Florida; Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department's Criminal Division; John V. Gillies, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office; and Christopher B. Dennis, Special Agent-in-Charge of the HHS Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), Office of Investigations Miami Office announced that Natalie Evans, 50, the owner and president of a Miami-area halfway house company pleaded guilty yesterday for her role in a kickback scheme that funneled patients to a fraudulent mental health provider, American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), and its related company, the American Sleep Institute (ASI).
Natalie Evans pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Evans was the president of Vision of Hope Recovery Inc., which operated five halfway houses in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
According to court documents, most of the residents at Evans's halfway houses were recovering from drug and/or alcohol addictions, and some had recently been released from prison. ATC purported to operate partial hospitalization programs (PHPs) in seven different locations throughout south Florida and Orlando. A PHP is a form of intensive treatment for severe mental illness.
According to court documents, Evans agreed to provide Medicare beneficiaries from Vision of Hope halfway houses to ATC for PHP services. Evans admitted that she knew the beneficiaries at her halfway houses needed day treatment for addiction and not PHP services. Evans also knew that ATC fraudulently billed the Medicare program for the PHP services provided to the beneficiaries she referred to ATC. According to court documents, Evans gave patient information, such as Medicare numbers, to a co-conspirator and the patients were then transported to and from ATC by ATC employees.
According to court filings, ATC's owners and operators paid kickbacks to owners and operators of assisted living facilities and halfway houses and to patient brokers in exchange for delivering ineligible patients to ATC and ASI. In some cases, the patients received a portion of those kickbacks. Throughout the course of the ATC and ASI conspiracy, millions of dollars in kickbacks were paid in exchange for Medicare beneficiaries who did not qualify for PHP services. The ineligible beneficiaries attended treatment programs that were not legitimate so that ATC and ASI could bill Medicare for more than $200 million in medically unnecessary services.
According to the plea agreement, Evans's participation in the fraud resulted in more than $645,975 in fraudulent billing to the Medicare program. At sentencing, scheduled for Jan. 19, 2012, Evans faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
ATC, its management company Medlink Professional Management Group Inc., and various owners, managers, doctors, therapists, patient brokers and marketers of ATC, Medlink and ASI, were charged with various health care fraud, kickback, money laundering and other offenses in two indictments unsealed on Feb. 15, 2011. ATC, Medlink and nine of the individual defendants have pleaded guilty or have been convicted at trial. Other defendants are scheduled for trial April 9, 2012, before U.S. District Judge Patricia A. Seitz.
The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Steven Kim and Jennifer L. Saulino of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section. The case was investigated by the FBI and HHS-OIG and was brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, supervised by the Criminal Division's Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida.
Since its inception in March 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in nine locations have charged more than 1,140 defendants that collectively have billed the Medicare program for more than $2.9 billion. In addition, HHS's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, working in conjunction with the HHS-OIG, are taking steps to increase accountability and decrease the presence of fraudulent providers.
A copy of this press release may be found on the website of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida at http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls. Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at http://www.flsd.uscourts.gov or on http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov.


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HELL'S SHELVES: S.L. Grey on THE WARD (plus a book giveaway!)
[Alan Kelly checks in with a new edition of his horror fiction column Hell's Shelves. This time, Alan interviews South African writing duo S.L. Grey.]
From the collective mind of S.L. Grey (the pseudonym for South African writing duo Sarah Lotz and Louis Greenberg) comes The Ward, an ingeniously perverse sequel to the alternate-reality shocker The Mall, in which two misfit teenagers – tough addict Rhoda and emo wimp Daniel – found themselves at the mercy of monsters, grotesque automatons and an evil corporate entity in a mirror realm known as the Downside. This time, more is revealed about the Downsiders and their brutal bureaucracy via a one-way ticket to the Ward, a place even more chilling.
As a setting, the "scary hospital" might not be as ubiquitous a staple as the haunted house or the cabin in the woods. Nevertheless, it is perhaps the one most likely to induce the heebie-jeebies – an interstitial domain where time moves sluggishly, people hover close to death, the burning scent of disinfectant masks something worse, and the distant screams of distressed patients echo down long, empty corridors. Grey utilizes all of these elements and gives them a terrifying new spin.
The Ward (out now from Corvus) sees the authors dip their toes into the bloody waters of extreme body modification, human harvesting and narcissistic obsession. Once you've cracked The Ward's spine, prepare to be scared witless. Grey's sophomore effort has the writing duo firing on all cylinders with a novel full of gore, tension and paranoia, where weird body horror abounds on every page. The deeper Grey takes you down the rabbit hole, the crazier the story gets, with spine-tingling moments of mutilation tempered by the astute psychological dissection of its two characters.
The story alternates between Farrell, a fashion photographer who wakes up blind in New Hope – a Kafkaesque institution nicknamed No Hope – and Lisa, an emotionally scarred plastic surgery addict admitted to the same hospital in a last-ditch effort to have cosmetic surgery when nowhere else will take her. When Farrell and Lisa become convinced that something is stalking the corridors, their attempt to escape leads them to the Downside, where monstrous orderlies, sociopathic nurses and the Administration await them.
We recently chatted with the writing team about their return to the Downside. (Scroll down to the bottom of the post for a chance to win a copy of The Ward!)
The Ward is the second in The Downside Trilogy; it's set in the same universe as The Mall and works as both a follow-up and a standalone novel. Was it during or after you collaborated on The Mall that you decided to return to the Downside?
Sarah Lotz: We started on a completely unrelated idea after we finished The Mall, but the Downside world drew us back in. We realised there were more stories that would be fun and pacy that we could set down there.
You both wrote The Mall via email with very quick chapter turnarounds. Did you follow a similar working path with this novel?
SL: Yes, the process was exactly the same.
The central concept of The Ward is body modification. Sarah, could you tell us about your investigations into Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)?
SL: As well as researching the medical and psychological effects of this condition, I went onto several forums that provide support for people with BDD, and I'm very grateful to the people there who shared their own experiences in dealing with the disorder. BDD is a debilitating psychological condition that often coincides with OCD and extreme depression and isolation, and is often misunderstood as stemming from vanity. I think almost everyone has a niggling sense of dissatisfaction regarding their appearance, partly due to the relentless media bombardment of unrealistic body ideals, so while our character Lisa suffers from an extreme version of this, I hope most of our readers will be able to relate to her.
Louis, Farrell's story echoes a Franz Kafka short, with him waking up blind in No Hope. What was the most difficult thing about writing from the perspective of a blind man?
Louis Greenberg: I realised just how visual our writing was when I had to describe things by feel and sound rather than by sight. It's a great writing exercise, because often other senses are neglected in favour of the visual, and often, more sensually rounded description is more engaging.
While we were finishing The Mall, I contracted severe measles, landed up in hospital and couldn't see for a few days. So Farrell's opening experiences were based on my own. That became a clear starting point for him and this novel.
No Hope is a grimy, grey, filthy hell-hole. Were either of you drawing from your own personal experiences of the healthcare system in Johannesburg?
LG: I have private medical insurance, so when I was hospitalised, it was in a private hospital. Public hospitals and clinics in South Africa, which offer free care to most people in the country, are always in crisis and struggle to keep up with the demand and particularly the effects of HIV and AIDS, which in South Africa is pandemic. It must be noted, though, that given their resources and fluctuating state involvement and the massive challenges they face, the healthcare professionals who work in public hospitals do a remarkable job of staying ahead of the tide. For example, the South African government offers the biggest free antiretroviral treatment programme in the world. We thought a grim hospital would make a good, fun, generic horror setting, but where the settings had any relationship to South African reality, we were at pains not to criticise the hospitals and the public health system themselves, but rather the inequities of the two-tiered system.
SL: Before I could afford medical insurance, I spent a fair amount of time in government hospitals – both here and in the UK – and I'm happy to say that not all of them were as grim as No Hope, and as Louis mentions, the staff were generally fantastic. However, the discrepancy between the level of health care afforded to private and non-private patients is staggering. It's idealistic, I know, but I do feel strongly that free health care, like education, is a basic human right (I grew up in the UK with doctor parents who worked for the NHS).
The donor/client selection process and the Downside's warped politics are explained in more detail this time round, allegorising the extremes of plastic surgery. Is body modification a visible subculture in South Africa?
SL: As far as plastic surgery goes, the phenomenon of getting a new pair of tits for your sixteenth birthday or Botox in your twenties, is nowhere near as prevalent in South Africa as it is in the US and UK. I think this is possibly because our celebrity culture isn't as in your face as it is in western countries. We don't really have a Kardashian substitute, for example, although this is changing rapidly.
You've started developing an online game, The Downside, for Failbetter Games. What can you tell us about it?
SL: We've developed a good picture of the Downside world, so when we were approached with the idea, we thought it would be the perfect place to tell other Downside stories that won't necessarily make it into novels. The game is an online story-based, choice-based role-playing game: we liked the retro feel, like those old create-your-own adventures, and the fact that story and world-building is prioritised. We're building some prototype stories at the moment and Failbetter's running a Kickstarter campaign in November and December to gauge interest in the project. We'll see where it goes next year. You can visit failbettergames.com to see what else they're doing.
The New Girl will be out next year and concludes the Downside Trilogy. Will this be the last time S.L. Grey takes us down that particular rabbit hole?
SL: At the moment, yes. We're keen to keep surprising ourselves and our readers. But as we say, the Downside game will be a great place to keep up with developments down there.
What does S.L Grey have planned after The New Girl?
SL: We're busy knocking about some ideas for the next novel. There's nothing formal yet.
Sarah, you've also collaborated with your daughter Savannah on the YA Deadlands series. What do you enjoy most about the co-writing gig?
SL: I love bouncing ideas around and talking about them for hours, although I know this drives Savannah and Louis crazy. And because Louis and I write progressively, there's always a few days of delicious anticipation while I wait for his next chapter to arrive. He always manages to surprise or freak me out (in a good way). Fascinating to see how other writers' minds work. I've learned a ton from both Louis and Savannah – Louis because he's such a brilliant literary stylist; Savannah because her writing is so fresh and raw and unencumbered by bullshit.
What individual projects are you currently working on?
SL: I'm currently working on a pre-apocalyptic (if that's a word) horror/thriller novel that will be published by Hodder in the UK and Reagan Arthur in the US in 2014. I'm loving every second of it, and I'm thrilled to be working with ace editor Anne Perry, who is also part of the Pornokitsch.com team. Dream come true.
LG: I'm working on a literary thriller called Dark Windows, set in an alternative-present Johannesburg where hippies have taken over the South African government. It combines my character focus and style with a pace and plot that I've learned from working with Sarah.
Finally, what were some of the cinematic/literary influences behind The Ward?
SL: I guess we won't be able to get away from the Session 9 comparison – I think it's the first movie that jumps into anyone's head when they hear the words "creepy hospital." I don't remember there being any direct influences, but no doubt many were lurking in our subconscious while we were writing. If I had to compare the Downside books to a particular movie, I guess atmosphere-wise it would be Terry Gilliam's Brazil. The bureaucratic nightmare he creates in that movie isn't a million miles from that in The Ward. We both loathe bureaucracy.
LG: Oddly enough, I haven't seen any of these flicks myself. I was scared of horror as a kid and avoided it, and only watched a little as an adult. Now, with young kids, the scariest I get is Barney and SpongeBob. So I can say that whatever references I was responsible for were completely picked from the collective unconscious and not from any particular horror source. I'd say Grey's Anatomy served as the behind-the-scenes model of a hospital in my imagination. That's horrible enough in its own way, I suppose.
Intrigued? Good, because Hell's Shelves and Corvus are giving away three copies of The Ward. To enter, just answer the following question in the comments section below: What was the name of Lars Von Trier's 1994 hospital-based horror series? Contest closes at midnight on Saturday, November 8. Winners will be selected at random from correct answers and contacted via email for their shipping info. Good luck!
Alan Kelly is the author of the pulp fiction novel Let Me Die a Woman and the European Liaison for the Viscera Film Festival. A horror and alt.cult fanatic, he has worked for many print and online magazines, including GCN (Gay Community News), This is Horror, Planet Fury, Film Ireland, Butcher Queers, and Bookslut. He lives in Wicklow, Ireland and is hard at work on his second book.


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And now I am complete again! My sweet Jordan came home today. I was able to pick him up at the airport which was nice. More good news- it took more than a few hours until we were on each others nerves again!! Score! :) I kid, I kid. Kind of.
In other good news- I received the BEST package today. A friend from home sent a surprise package with lots of my favorite things including real Texas salsa. I got all teary eyed looking through the box and reading the sweet card. I get down sometimes about being away from home, and I have to say, that wonderful little box was such a morale boost. Laura, you rock! I cant thank you enough!
I had a job interview today. It seemed to go well. Please pray about what the Lord would have me do!
Other than that we are just trying to stay cool. It has been close to 90 degrees here this week. It doesn't sound like much, but remember, NO AC IN GERMAN HOUSES!!!! Ahhhh! Oh well, I can handle this everyday as long as the snow stays away for a long time!
That's all for now. Time to get back to the hubby!


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Contributed by Leanne Guenther
This is a great cut and paste paper craft project for learning about Denmark. It includes some animals, symbolic icons, and the flag of Denmark.
This turns out to be quite a large project (about 25 inches x 25 inches) and there are lots of templates to print.
Note: If you'd like a smaller project (both in size and time) do a 4 square quilt instead of a 9 square quilt: only print templates 1, 2, 4 and 5.
Alternatively, you might like to have a group of children each make a quilt piece or two and then assembling everyone's pieces into one quilt.
Image 1: The Red Clover is the national flower of Denmark.
Image 2: Queen Margrethe II of Denmark was born April 16, 1940.
Image 3: In Scandinavian mythology, trolls are frequently
described as being extremely old, very strong, but slow and
dim-witted. They remain close to nature (dark forests, especially)
and are said to turn to stone in the sunlight.
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Denmark is the world's largest pork exporter.
Image 5: The
flag of Denmark has a white cross on a red background.
6: The Mute Swan is the national animal of Denmark.
7: Thumbelina was a fairy tale by the Danish writer, Hans Christian
Andersen. It was first published in 1835. Thumbelina is a tale about
a tiny girl and her love story with a fairy flower prince.
Image 8: Football (soccer) is Denmark's most popular sport.
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The term Viking (from Old Norse víkingr) is customarily used to
refer to the Scandinavian explorers, warriors, merchants, and
pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of
Europe and the North Atlantic islands from the late eighth to the
mid-11th century.
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An Alfred P. Sloan project to investigate faculty retirement transitions and award institutions that have innovative best practices.
Fifteen institutions from 3 Carnegie classifications (Baccalaureate Colleges, Master's Large Institutions, and Doctoral/Research Universities) have been selected for their best practices in policies and programs supporting faculty in the 3 stages of the retirement transition. These 15 institutions will be awarded $100,000 each. All winning institutions will submit relevant material pertaining to their award-winning policy or practice for inclusion in an ACE-Sloan online toolkit for faculty retirement transitions, as well as write a short chapter about their award-winning policy or practice for inclusion in a monograph expected to be published in the fall of 2012. Winners are encouraged to disseminate their best practices through conference and other venues in the 2012-2013 academic year.
"This competition, focused on senior faculty careers, provides opportunity to showcase some of the leading practices in the country," said Claire Van Ummersen, project director and senior advisor in ACE's Leadership and Lifelong Learning division. "The winners will have occasions to disseminate information about their award-winning programs that support both long-serving faculty and the needs of colleges and universities to maintain a vibrant faculty community."
Descriptions of the recipients' best practices are listed below:
Albright College's (PA) retired and soon-to-be retired faculty members are very satisfied with the special services the college provides for them. In particular, they take advantage of the financial planning assistance, retirement phasing and transitioning programs, and ongoing tuition support available for faculty member dependents. Retired faculty also participate in the college's retiree focus groups and the surveys that are periodically circulated to gather feedback on the retirement transitioning process.
Carleton College (MN) aims to provide as much flexibility as possible for faculty in retirement transitions, and creates a culture in which faculty naturally make the decision to retire. This flexibility allows faculty to explore and venture into post-retirement endeavors, define meaningful concluding projects, and remain active with the college if they desire. Carleton faculty members have proposed a wide variety of culminating, or legacy, projects, which carry an emphasis on flexibility and individual design. Faculty also responded positively to the questions on the Sloan survey regarding the supportive culture created by senior leaders, colleagues, and students for senior faculty on campus.
At Mount Holyoke College (MA), a faculty member nearing or in phased retirement may apply for a transitioning grant. This one-time award allows faculty to complete a specific project as they move toward and into retirement. Over the past 2 years, transitioning grants have been used for supporting publication costs, securing usage permission for illustrations, traveling to archives facilities abroad, and staging musical performances. The college also excels at providing ample retiree benefits. Some examples include supporting research costs and grant applications, providing dedicated space on campus, allowing access to college resources, and encouraging retired faculty to continue teaching.
Skidmore College (NY) provides exemplary financial planning and medical insurance to faculty members in order to assist them in their retirement. The college offers partially subsidized medical insurance to retirees and their partners and dependents, along with a medical "bridge" program that faculty can utilize until they become eligible for Medicare. The college's faculty members are very satisfied with these options. Realizing through previous surveys that what the institution's retirees want most of all is to be connected with one another, the college has taken a unique approach in focusing on special social gatherings for retirees. Some examples include an annual event honoring new retirees held at the home of the vice president for academic affairs and a meeting with the campus president, during which retirees receive an update on the college. An informally constituted Retiree Initiative Group also arranges events for retirees.
Wellesley College (MA) has an emeriti-faculty steering committee, which develops programs for retired faculty and works with faculty who are nearing retirement to help ease their transition. This committee provides a cohort to which retired faculty can belong, and has facilitated Wellesley College's ability to define, formalize, and expand the college's rights and privileges for emeriti faculty. The college does an excellent job tracking faculty who utilize early and phased retirement programs, along with surveying faculty in all phases of retirement on their usage of transition supports. In addition, Wellesley faculty are satisfied with their ability to participate in various campus legacy programs and culminating projects, retirement transition counseling, and other phasing and transitioning supports.
Bentley University (MA) has exceptional policies in place for faculty members in both the pre-retirement and retirement phases. Specific written policies detail a variety of ways in which faculty members can move into retirement over one, two, or three years, thus allowing for flexible implementation that takes place at the faculty member's preferred pace. These options allow faculty to gradually reduce their commitments, while still contributing in meaningful ways that recognize their individual strengths. Bentley's faculty are extremely satisfied with the university's post-tenure review, phasing and transitioning supports, and ongoing assistance in retirement. The university has experienced a surge in faculty retirements in recent years.
San José State University (CA) To accommodate the needs of tenured faculty members preparing to retire from the university, including those who are both very open and very private about their decision—the university created the Pre-Reduction in Time Base/Faculty Early Retirement Program Calculator. This online tool provides clear information about the financial implications for the array of retirement options available to such faculty, and can be used by all faculty members in the 23-campus California State University system. In addition, their career-planning retreats provide opportunities for tenured faculty to reflect on their professional accomplishments, plans, goals, and legacies.
University of Baltimore (MD) has published a comprehensive guide to institutional policies and resources regarding retirement. This central set of guidelines, titled "Engaged Retirement and Privileges of All Retired Faculty", highlights a number of ways faculty can remain involved after retiring. The university offers emeriti faculty clerical support and financial support to help them travel to conferences, as well as the opportunity to keep a named chair position and have dedicated and private office space. This office space is made available both in the department and the institution, which is unusual for an urban campus. The university's human resources office also maintains a timeline tool that helps faculty members plan their transition.
Xavier University (OH), a Jesuit institution, concentrates on the care of the individual faculty member and takes a holistic approach to faculty retirement transitions. A special workshop series presents opportunities for reflection and discussion, specializing in topics such as aging and spirituality. Examples of previous workshop themes are the "Second Fifty," which focuses on life after age 50, and "Spiritual Companion," which explores the Jesuit philosophy of cura personalis, or "care of the entire person." The university fosters an environment in which senior colleagues are highly valued by the administration, students, and junior colleagues.
George Mason University (VA) provides a variety of innovative programs which facilitate a smooth retirement transition for its faculty and staff including a faculty retirement transitions leave program and a Retirement Connections program to encourage Mason retirees to stay connected to the university. In partnership with Fairfax County in Virginia, the university offers a day long program called "Your Next Chapter: Charting a Course for Retirement," which helps prepare the individual as a whole for retirement by exploring personal resources, preferences, motivations, skills, and interests. In partnership with the Leadership Fairfax and Volunteer Fairfax community groups, the university provides speakers for a program called Lifetime Leadership for retirees, based on the belief that they can offer a wealth of experience, leadership, and vitality to the community while enriching their own lives. The university also offers a series of Life Planning Seminars, and is in the process of developing a retirement coaching program, training current and retired faculty and others to provide one-on-one retirement transitions coaching for Mason faculty and eventually the surrounding community.
Georgia Institute of Technology (GA) The Office of the Vice President for Institute Diversity will launch an institution-wide diversity and climate survey in which faculty will be asked about their plans for retirement and their satisfaction with the university's retirement transition options. Georgia Tech currently offers various tools to its retirees, extending nearly identical privileges to both retired and emeriti faculty and fully subsidizing the medical insurance of retired faculty members, their spouses, and their dependents.
Princeton University (NJ) has a variety of policies and programs intended to support faculty retirement transitions and generally foster opportunities for emeriti faculty members to continue their research and scholarship. Princeton has created a set of four retirement transition packages for faculty members who are eligible for retirement after they reach age 55 and have at least 10 years of service. Faculty members who make the decision to retire by the age of 70 receive a bonus that ranges from .5 years to 1.5 years of salary, depending on when the retirement agreement is signed. These four packages provide transparency and fairness to the faculty and prevent concerns that "closed-door deals" are creating inequities.
University of California, (UC) Davis built on a history of creating transparency through education, and created a website that defines faculty retirement eligibility and recall options, generates (through an outside link) an estimate of pension benefits, and directs faculty to retirement preparedness checklists. UC Davis faculty reported satisfaction with campus financial planning and medical insurance options. The creation of a series of workshops just for faculty that focus on UC pension options, retiree health benefits, social security, budgeting/financial considerations, and work/life transitions has been very well received. A dedicated Retiree Center and a section for retirees on the UC intranet "At Your Service" website provides additional information about all aspects of pre- and post-retirement that is relevant to all members of the greater UC community.
University of Southern California (USC) strives to provide its faculty with services and resources that ensure a successful transition to retirement. The USC Emeriti Center, established in 1978, is home to a Living History Project intended to record faculty legacies. It also houses the Trojan ENCORE program, which promotes part-time work and on-campus volunteer service among campus retirees to leverage their unique skills and experiences, maintain their connections with the university, and fulfill specific needs of academic departments. In addition, the USC Emeriti Center College, which sponsors a speaker's bureau, offers small research grants so retired faculty may continue or finish ongoing projects. It also provides enrichment courses, including a guided autobiography class, a multigenerational venue for faculty to activate memories, review their lives, and write personal histories as a legacy for themselves and their families.
University of Washington (UW) is committed to supporting faculty in their retirement transition and has, by policy, vested in tenured faculty members the right to be reemployed up to a maximum of 40% of their pre-retirement position for instructional and/or research purposes for 5 years after the date of retirement. In response to concerns expressed by faculty members about health care expenses in retirement, UW developed a voluntary retirement incentive (VRI) program, through which retiring tenured faculty members could forego their vested right to reemployment in exchange for a tax-free medical expense account. The VRI has held 2 open enrollments since May 2010. This program provides a vehicle for incentivizing retirement at a time of serious budgetary constraints.
Institutions which have Carnegie classifications of research universities, master's large institutions, arts & sciences baccalaureate schools, and medical schools were invited to apply for the awards. Applicants were evaluated in a two-part process. During the first round, an institutional survey about the culmination of faculty careers, with questions focusing on the development of a legacy, the transition into retirement, and the continuing involvement of faculty post-retirement was offered to participating institutions. The second round included a faculty survey, which measured the level of satisfaction that faculty had with their institution's programs, policies and options regarding pre-retirement, the process of entering into retirement, and post-retirement.
A panel of recently retired college and university presidents and chancellors reviewed and rated the applicants' materials, including Robert Berdhal, former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley; Nils Hasselmo, former president of the University of Minnesota; Stephen Trachtenberg, president emeritus of The George Washington University (D.C.); Roy Saigo, former president of St. Cloud State University (MN); Patricia Cormier, former president of Longwood University (VA); Gladys Johnston, chancellor emerita of the University of Nebraska at Kearney; Peggy Williams, president emerita of Ithaca College (NY); Stanton Hales, former president of the College of Wooster (OH); and Gordon Haaland, former president of Gettysburg College (PA).
Faculty retirement is not just a process, but a pivotal decision made in the context of the latter stages of a faculty career—one with direct economic consequences for both the individual and the institution. Understanding higher education's unique tenure structure and faculty employment dynamics, the American Council on Education (ACE), with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is taking the lead in encouraging change in institutional culture to support a greatly expanded view of faculty retirement.
"The goal is to increase understanding of the final stages of faculty careers," said Kathleen Christensen, program director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. "ACE will identify policies and practices in higher education that best support faculty in the culminating stages of their careers, as well as those enabling them to phase into satisfying retirement and postretirement experiences within their institutions."
ACE uses a 3 phase framework to explore faculty retirement transitions:
This 2-year project will engage in several related activities that we believe represent the best strategies to move the national conversation beyond concerns over an aging professoriate and faculty turnover to mutually beneficial effective policies and practices that facilitate the retirement transition for faculty and their institutions.
Through a select pilot group of institutions, ACE explored how institutions currently support the culminating stages of a senior faculty member's career in 3 areas:
In addition to the awards program, ACE hosted an invitational conference and worked with 9 pilot institutions. ACE also created a Literature Review of Faculty Retirement Transitions, and a Whitepaper on Legal Issues, which focused on structuring faculty retirement packages and supporting the culminating stages of faculty careers.
ACE hosted an invitational conference for campus teams (president or provost and the appropriate senior academic personnel officer) where we showcased key findings related to best practices, solicit feedback and refinement of ideas and additional new information from a broader pool of institutions, and announced a competition for best practices in supporting the latter stages faculty careers, the transition into retirement, and engagement of retired faculty. For more information, please view the Executive Summary of the Conference.
This conference took place in Chicago, IL from July 11–12, 2011. Institutions which have Carnegie classifications of research universities, master's large institutions, arts & sciences baccalaureate schools, and medical schools were sent a screening questionnaire in February 2011. At this conference, we reviewed the aggregate findings of our questionnaire on supports for faculty retirement transitions from the 158 responding institutions.
From January to June 2011, ACE conducted in-depth best practices in creating win-win scenarios that effectively support latter career faculty and their transition into retirement, while meeting institutional needs. We identified: the cultural and structural constraints that institutions face when managing tenured faculty compositions without mandatory retirement; what faculty from different institutional types expect, want, and need during the transition into retirement; and, the most efficient and cost effective strategies through which institutions meet their own needs while meeting faculty needs during the transition into retirement.
Pilot Schools were picked with assistance from an advisory committee from institutions which had previously applied to the Sloan Awards and which had a variety of institutional characteristics (e.g., size, public vs. private, unionized vs. non-unionized) that would provide a diverse and inclusive set of institutional perspectives. Participating institutions hosted a day-and-a-half long site visit, conducted by the ACE-Sloan team, that included brief meetings with senior campus leaders, interviews with administrators involved with faculty retirement, and focus groups with faculty for the purpose of collecting faculty perceptions.
The pilot schools are: Carleton College, Claremont McKenna College, Columbia University, Drake University, Middlebury College, San José State University, Towson University, University of Kansas, and the University of Virginia.
At ACE's 2011 Annual Meeting, a special session was held to discuss faculty retirement issues. The session was covered by the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside HigherEd. Speakers included: Kathleen Christensen, Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Teresa A. Sullivan, President, University of Virginia, James H. Mullen, President, Allegheny College, and Lawrence Pitts, MD, Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of California.
ACE Annual Meeting 2015
March 4, 2015
Jeffery "L.J." Gearhart II, a McDonald's restaurant general manager and student at Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana, is ACE's 2014 Student of the Year.
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March 2, 2015
ACE's 97th Annual Meeting will provide valuable opportunities to obtain insight into what higher education leaders can expect from federal policymakers in the coming year.
Campus Internationalization
Members of the 12th Cohort of ACE's Internationalization Laboratory joined in a robust discussion Friday, Feb. 13 in Washington during the mid-year seminar to explore several campus internationalization issues, with creating campus-wide buy in and...
Institutional Capacity
ACE is now accepting applications to its 2015 Institute for New Chief Academic Officers, which will meet in three sessions throughout the year.
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