Instructional Faculty call for Phased Retirement

February 12, 2020

As reported in the February 12, 2020 Yale Daily News, “French professor Ruth Koizim has taught at Yale for decades as an instructional faculty member — shouldering many of the same duties as her tenured peers, including teaching, committee work and advising. But as a senior lecturer, Koizim lacks a key perk: phased retirement. Under this system, eligible tenured faculty nearing retirement can cut their workload in half during the three years prior to their departure. For the first two of these years of the phased retirement, this decreased labor will not correspond to a decrease in pay. For departments, this system is a way to train replacements, and for outgoing faculty, it is a means of easing into a life outside the University.” Click here for full story.