Oakland and Reid begin phased retirement
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| Photo by Don Hamilton |
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| Photo by Julie Riddle, '92 |
Longtime faculty members Leonard Oakland and Tammy Reid, '60, are the first to take part in Whitworth's new phased-retirement plan. Due to an anticipated increase in faculty retirements over the next few years, university administrators developed the program for interested tenured faculty who have taught at Whitworth full time for a minimum of 15 years.
"Thirty-six percent of our 2006-07 faculty were born before 1950," says Michael Le Roy, '89, vice president for academic affairs. "Faculty in this group will begin to retire around 2012."
Oakland has taught literature at Whitworth since 1966 and is the university's longest-serving faculty member. He has taught on the Core 250 team since its inception in 1969 and will continue to do so. Reid, who came to Whitworth in 1971, taught in the School of Education and the English department for 17 years before moving into administration, where she served for an additional 17 years, nine of them as vice-president for academic affairs and retirementdean of the faculty. She moved back to the classroom, with the English department, in 2005.
"This is a wonderful new arrangement," says Oakland. "I am very grateful to the administration for inaugurating it in time for me to make use of it."
Oakland's and Reid's choice to move to half-time appointments allowed the university to hire two new full-time English faculty who will join Whitworth this fall. "It's a win-win situation; the program benefits the faculty member as well as the institution," Reid says.
Adapted from an April 15, 2008 Whitworthian article by Erica Schrader, '08.
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