The University of Nebraska at Lincoln announced it is offering early retirement incentives to tenured faculty members age 62 and older.
The offer of a one-time, lump-sum payment of 90 percent of a professor’s annual salary will go to about 250 professors with at least 10 years’ experience at the university, or about 30 percent of the university’s tenured faculty members.
In a news release, Chancellor Harvey Perlman said the move will allow the university to hire the next generation of faculty.