Despite academic rhetoric, there are few empirical data available about academic administrators' perceived expectations and achievements resulting from an early retirement incentive program. A natural laboratory for undertaking a preliminary and heuristic study of the perceived impact of such a program became available in Ohio when one was enacted by the state legislature. This study examines academic administrators' expectations for and perceptions of the impact of this program as well as their satisfaction or lack of it with an early retirement incentive program.
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