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traditionalretirement age of 65 between the years 2000 to 2010.As a result there will belittle academic or financial flexibility for at least another decade.Aquestionnaire is presented as a tool for measuring the personal andprofessional characteristics of this age group with respect to threeconsiderations:(1)their level of career satisfaction,(2)their interest in acareer alternatives program,and(3)their plans to retire either before or by theage of 65 or to continue to work after 65 if mandatory retirement is abolished.Asignificant proportion of academic faculty are no longer finding satisfaction intheir academic work and would consider an alternative career if that werefeasible.Those who are not interested in leaving academic life early tend to behappy and productive.A career alternatives program could be an effective wayto begin the renewal process within higher education now,not after the year2000.  \n## Résumé\n\nLes deux tiers des professeurs d'université canadiens atteindront 65 ans,I'agede la retraite prévu par la loi,entre les années 2000 et 2010.Ceci veut direqu'il y aura toujours aussi peu de flexibilité,tant dans les cours que dansI'organisation financiere,pendant les dix prochaines années au moins.On atenté,à partir d'un questionnaire,de mesurer certaines caractéristiquespersonnelles et professionnelles de ce groupe dage dans les trois domainessuivants:1)leur niveau de satisfaction vis-à-vis leur carrière,2)I'intérêtqu'ils pourraient avoir pour une formation en vue dune autre carrière,et 3)leur désir de prendre leur retraite avant 65 ans,à65 ans ou plus tard si laretraite obligatoire à65 ans était abolie.Un grand nombre de professeursd'université n'éprouvent plus de satisfaction à exercer leur métier et aimeraient  \nentreprendre une nouvelle carriere si cela était possible.Quant à ceux qui nesouhaitent pas arrêter de travailler tôt,ce sont,dans I'ensemble,les plusproductifs et les plus heureux.La conclusion que I'on peut tirer de cette étude,c'est qu'un programme d'intégrationàdautres milieux professionnels pourraitetre un bon moyen de rajeunir Ienseignement supérieur dès maintenant,et dene pas attendre I'an 2000 pour s'en préoccuper:  \nDemographic studies(e.g.,Pfaffenberger,1989;Renner,1986c)of the academicfaculty in Canada have shown that roughly two-thirds will reach the traditionalretirement age of 65 between the years 2000 to 2010.Given the possible end ofmandatory retirement,it is not yet clear what will be the average age of theiractual retirement.In the United States,the end of forced retirement appears tohave resulted in a gradually increasing average age of retirement (Lozier &Dooris,1990).Based on a review of the TIAA/CREF records,the currentexpectation is that 25%of those faculty teaching at four year colleges anduniversities at the age of 60 will still be teaching at the same institution at theage of 70(Heim,1990).The Canadian situation is less clear;although there arelocal experiences at most Canadian universities,these have not found their wayinto archival literature.  \nA variety of financial and academic implications can be derived from thesedemographic factors for higher education.There is a large age group who aretenured and moving to top of the salary scale;and,because current retirementrates are low,there are relatively few junior faculty at the bottom of the payscale.As a result,salary budgets of universities will rapidly escalate over thenext decade or more,putting higher education under even more severe financialpressure than it is currently(Renner,1986c;1988b).In addition,the academicspecializations of this age group,hired in the 1960's,no longer match theemerging needs of higher education(Renner &Skibbens,1990).Finally,anobservation,based on surveys in both the United States (e.g.,Jacobsen,1985)and in Canadal(Timmons,1989),is t","cbCairyMsgpNimTL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairyMsgpNimTL","pdf",363682,"English","# Abstract\n## Résumé\n## Method","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the 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