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Section: April 1998
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From Capital to Campus. . .
Institutions of higher education would be permitted to offer voluntary
age-based retirement incentives to tenured faculty under a plan being considered
in Congress.NEA
supports voluntary early retirement incentives. But the Association will oppose
the measure, unless it requires that such voluntary retirement offers be the
mandatory subject of collective bargaining where appropriate.In places where collective
bargaining is not in effect, such voluntary retirement incentives should be
subject to the normal governance process of the institution. NEA also recommends
that such incentive plans also be made available to staff.?
Two House leaders have a plan to end the debate over student loan
interest.The
plan, proposed by the top Democrat and the Republican chair of the higher
education subcommittee, would lower the rate to 6.8 percent while a student is
in college and 7.4 percent afterward.Lenders would get paid as if
the interest rate was 7.2 percent while students are in college, and 7.9 percent
after they leave, with the difference made up by the federal government...
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