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PBS NewsHour | Colleges See Older Workforce Holding On to Coveted Positions | PBS

Duration: 10:38
Program: PBS NewsHour #10586
Broadcast Date: Mar. 18, 2013

In academia, many professors remain working and teaching long past traditional retirement age, leaving younger potential professors shut out from highly coveted full-time, tenured positions. As part of a series on older workers, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on how institutions are negotiating with aging faculty.

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Post Date: March 18, 2013