Graying Professoriate (from the Chronicle of Higher Ed)

[Michael Perelman]

As a graying professor myself, I can say that Yoshie is correct.  The history
of my own department is rather typical.  It grew like wildfire during the 60s
and 70s.  A few of us have retired and a few dinasauers like me are still
staying on.  The retirements have not led to new hires but attrition.  As a
result, we cannot hire anybody.

In economics, the fact that we cannot hire anybody young is not terribly tragic
in the sense that the person that we would hire would be quite conservative.

Young progressives seem to get hired only at small liberal arts and Catholic
colleges from what I have seen.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901