Emeritus Professors Make a Case for Campuses to Tap Their Talents
A recent survey of emeritus professors in the University of California system seeks to show just how productive they have been, touting such tallies as 500 books, 3,000 journal articles, and 2,500 conference papers over a three-year span. Responses from about 1,600 emeritus professors on all but one of the system’s 10 campuses — about a quarter of the whole group — demonstrate that the amount of research, publishing, teaching, mentoring, and service performed by just that fraction of them is equivalent to a “virtual 11th campus,” a report on the findings says.
