Academics Pioneer 'the Third Age'

They are part of a new way of looking at retirement

By MARC FREEDMAN and PHYLLIS MOEN

At age 55, Steve Weiner began to think about retiring from a satisfying 30-year career in higher education. He had gotten his Ph.D. in management and education from Stanford, was a professor there and at Berkeley, provost at Mills College, and the top dog at the organization...