Incentivized retirement bittersweet for some UM professors | The Second Look
Maria Bustos retired last semester along with 15 other professors in the University of Montana's College of Humanities and Sciences. After a more than 30-year career, she decided to step down from her tenured position in the Spanish department and enjoy time with her loved ones — that, and the University offered her an early retirement package. The cuts came as part of UM's plan to slim down the College of Humanities and Sciences following enrollment drops over the last decade. But Bustos and other professors who took early retirement are concerned about the health of the programs they're…
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