My friend is a tenured full professor. ~70 years old. Working in a state university ranking ~250th. He loves his work of teaching and research. He is in good health and performs at least above average.
He has been given new courses every semester to teach in the past three or four years, which has taken him time away from doing research. Yet his chair demands him to meet the milestones in research she set for him. And he got very little or zero salary increase during the past 4 years.
He felt discriminated against. He thought all the tricks his chair has been doing is to force him to retire. He has complained to HR. But the result of HR investigation says, "no evidences of wrong doing" in his Chair's part. He then took the case to the university president, and the case is about to close.
My friend is fighting for his academic life and reputation. He doesn't want to retire. At the very least, he does not want to be forced to retire with a damaged reputation.
Any suggestions to help him to deal with this situation? Does he need a lawyer to look at his case? What type of lawyer and how to find good lawyer?
Additional information: He is the only tenured, full professor in the department. The majority of the faculty are non-tenure track. He has voiced strong objections to the Chair's attempt to promote and tenure her favorite faculty and hire that faculty's husband.
2，不想退，就要看学校和系里面对full Professor 的workload assignments，看看是不是reasonable and comparable to other same rank professors. 按说系里，学院和大学都有类似的policy的。不过对一个70岁的老教授，每个学期让交新课的确不正常。看来他在系里没有话语权啊。
My friend is a tenured full professor. ~70 years old. Working in a state university ranking ~250th. He loves his work of teaching and research. He is in good health and performs at least above average.
He has been given new courses every semester to teach in the past three or four years, which has taken him time away from doing research. Yet his chair demands him to meet the milestones in research she set for him. And he got very little or zero salary increase during the past 4 years.
He felt discriminated against. He thought all the tricks his chair has been doing is to force him to retire. He has complained to HR. But the result of HR investigation says, "no evidences of wrong doing" in his Chair's part. He then took the case to the university president, and the case is about to close.
My friend is fighting for his academic life and reputation. He doesn't want to retire. At the very least, he does not want to be forced to retire with a damaged reputation.
Any suggestions to help him to deal with this situation? Does he need a lawyer to look at his case? What type of lawyer and how to find good lawyer?
Additional information: He is the only tenured, full professor in the department. The majority of the faculty are non-tenure track. He has voiced strong objections to the Chair's attempt to promote and tenure her favorite faculty and hire that faculty's husband.
What if they treated him differently? To my experience, it is very unusual to assign new courses to a professor during 3-four consective years?
美国文化和传统，没有人去挑战。比如，总统竞选的electoral vote 可以使得到少数票的人当选，一个代表少数人利益的被当选，可是没人去fight。Gore 不fight，Hilary Clinton 不fight。 他可以参加已经在进行的校园ageism 的study， 或者申请一个类似的研究项目。根据你说的情况，他大概不会得到学校的支持拿到funding，那么他需要和年轻的colleagues 合作，共同申请funding，最好邀请State System of Higher Education 的人加入，一起做相关的研究项目。 这个可能对他很有意义。不过，人生苦短，何苦一辈子都奉献给讲堂？！特别是在人家并不appreciate 他的贡献的时候。
His department only has MS degree. He has ~30% research appointment.
也没错---至少站在学校的立场看的话。
我觉得这么大年纪了，不肯退休肯定是想做研究。不如跟学校做个deal，自己退或半退（少教课），多花点时间做研究，反正这年纪已经可以拿退休金了。
跟学校谈，半退（因为可以拿退休金了），但减少教学工作量
做pilot。
84的这个诺奖一级的，在美国也没人鸟他了（也拿不到funding了），春秋学期各上一门课。假期都在中国混，前呼后拥，多神气
90% of life. He has worked a life time and it is so hard to let it all go.
学校毕竟不是你家的
美国少有的，称得上是理论家的Chomsky， 91 岁，还在讲课，每次都是人满为患，记忆清晰。看看House Speaker 也是年近80 ，仍旧脚蹬三寸高跟鞋，说话逻辑清晰。而另一些人，则已老态龙钟。phased out retirement system 目前在一些州的大学做pilot。这些有教学经验的人是宝贵的。哈佛大学有一个利用退休人员的项目，做得非常好。既benefit 社会，又利用了那些人的才智。
教师做培训，指导学生研究项目，扬长避短，学校和教授个人都受益。
让您的朋友在学校的网站搜“ Ombudsperson Office， 美国的很多学校都有这个机构， 为大学的所有成员提供免费， 独立的仲裁服务。 祝您的朋友好运。 你在谷歌搜这个词语， 一看就明白了。
a job.
much more than retiring.
除非心态好能随大流。如果是个骄傲的老教授想让人尊敬，那要看你对别人有没有价值了
1，70岁了，真该退休了。把位置腾出来给年轻人。
2，不想退，就要看学校和系里面对full Professor 的workload assignments，看看是不是reasonable and comparable to other same rank professors. 按说系里，学院和大学都有类似的policy的。不过对一个70岁的老教授，每个学期让交新课的确不正常。看来他在系里没有话语权啊。
何必死赖在这个位子，要为下一代让路，是一种美德，也是一种义务。
以不同形式来中断，逼退颓拗。 这种情况都会得到校方的支持。
为此对抗的话，费神费力，徒添烦恼，到头来名誉受损，一生徒劳。
花无百日好，何况是人？没有任何人一生都能做领头人。
老了不退休，还老要当PI，倚老卖老，广纳良言；那就是变相厚着脸皮，侵吞他人的知识产权！
业务如果真的好，那别的大学会抢着要的。
如果他只是不想退休，还想继续工作，可以跟上级商量，换个别的位置，把那个 tenured full professor的位置让给年富力强的人，他自己也能继续工作，岂不皆大欢喜？否则按他目前的做法，没人会开心。
我们系里也有80了还不肯退的，系里也是不能明说，只能制造各种障碍，希望他能退。给年轻人腾位置吧，不想闲下来可以半退，学校应该可以给保留个办公室，他用自己的funding做研究，也不用教课了，多好。或者只教两门课，算作解闷。我们系里有个老太太就一直这样，已经快20年了。