The economic, human, and social impacts of mandatory retirement are addressed in a brief presented by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) to the Subcommittee on Equality Rights. There is a possibility that the coming into force of equality rights may remove mandatory retirement. It has been estimated that by 1989 removal of mandatory retirement would result in approximately 300 fewer new faculty being recruited and an increase in operating costs due to the retention of higher salaried faculty. Concerns of AUCC include: in the absence of mandatory retirement, the lack of career opportunities for young and promising scholars will be further aggravated; already limited financial resources for universities will be further drained either by the retention of a more expensive professoriate or by the costs of alternatives to mandatory retirement; in the absence of mandatory retirement policies, the human practices of institutional loyalty that allow termination of employment through retirement of once productive scholars may well be replaced by the disciplinary actions resulting in termination for cause; and the loss to the body of knowledge resulting from the lack of career opportunities for young and promising scholars may outweigh the benefits of the removal of mandatory retirement. (SW)