Interviews with Retired 91ÁÔÆæ Faculty

91ÁÔÆæ is fortunate to have been one of 15 campuses nation-wide to receive a Transitions to Retirement award from the American Council on Education and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. As part of this award, we have created a series of brief videotaped interviews with retired 91ÁÔÆæ faculty. We have sought to provide a window onto their experience as they contemplated, completed and then adjusted to retirement. Our hope is that current faculty will find these perspectives useful as they consider their own career paths.

Interview Questions

We asked our interviewees to share with us the following:

  • What considerations prompted them to begin thinking about retirement
  • What steps they took (the people they spoke with, the information they gathered, the events they attended, and the like) once they began thinking about retirement
  • How their actual experience of retirement compared with their pre-retirement expectations
  • What they have found easy and what they have found challenging about retirement
  • What they wish they had known earlier, about the process or about what to expect
  • What advice they cared to share with other faculty, in order to help them with their transitions to retirement
  • What keeps them busy and active, now that they are retired
  • How, if at all, they remain connected with 91ÁÔÆæ

Interviews

Overview

These video segments consist of excerpts from our interviews with retired faculty, as they address the question of what they would have liked to know before they retired, or what advice they would like to offer current faculty. Click on the names below and you will be linked to their interview.

, Chemistry (2000)
, Hospitality, Recreation, and Tourism (2006)
, Nursing (2011)
, Organization and Management (2006)
, Sociology (2003)
, Physics (2008)
, Psychology (2004)
, Political Science and Humanities (2001)
, Special Education/College of Education (2009)
, Linguistics and Language Development (2005)
, Linguistics and Language Development (2000)
English and Comparative Literature (2001)
English and Comparative Literature (2003)
, Counseling (2011)
, Library (2006)
Journalism and Mass Communications (2005)
, Nursing (2008)