Graying Faculty Leads To Shift In Campus Politics

Baby boomers, hired in large numbers during a huge expansion in higher education that continued into the ’70s, are being replaced by younger professors who believe they are different from their predecessors — less ideologically polarized and more politically moderate. Yet already there are signs that the intense passions and polemics that roiled campuses during the past couple of decades have begun to fade. How many will actually retire in the next decade or so depends on personal preferences and health, as well as how their pensions fare in the financial markets. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/arts/03camp.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th