"Choose a work that you love and you won't have to work another day." Confucius
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The reading list is arranged alphabetically by the author's last name.
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Craig, Ken (2019) AROHE 2018: Re-Creating Retirement.
(Based on extensive work with academic retirement organizations by UBC Professor Emeritus [Psychology]).
Flaherty, Colleen (2013, June 17) Working Way Past 65.
Report of a US study indicating that professors are delaying retirement or not planning to retire at all, due to professional and economic reasons.
Flaherty, Colleen (2013, Oct. 7) Not a Retirement Club.
The emeritus college is seen an intellectual bridge to retirement for professors.
Keyser, Samuel (2011, Aug. 3). An early retirement from academia: breaking away from MIT.
Blog posting on the Guardian newspaper. One faculty member’s take and advice on retirement.
Savishinsky, J. (2000). Breaking the Watch: The Meanings of Retirement in America. New York: Cornell University Press.
Based on a retirement project involving 25 US retirees plus previously published articles by the author. Author is a professor of anthropology and gerontology, and author of several books on aging. Serious reading.
Tenner, Edward (2011, July 14). When should academics retire? The Atlantic
Wilkes, Helen W. (2018) The Aging of Aquarius: Igniting Passion and Purpose in Elders Gabriola Is., BC: New Society Publishers.
Author and octogenarian, former professor of French literature and UBC faculty member.
Website Emory University Emeritus College: Extensive reading list on retirement.