Later Career Faculty & Emeriti
The UC Berkeley Retirement Center's Emeriti Resource Guide includes pre- and post-retirement resources designed to support later career facutly in planning their transition into retirement. The Emeriti Privileges webpage summarizes benefits available to emeriti faculty.
The Pathway to Retirement is a special option to faculty who intend to retire and would like to make a smooth transition from everyday expectations in research, teaching, and service to an engagement with the University that is tailored to their special circumstances. A Pathway to Retirement Agreement can create a multi-year period of transition that includes special provisions before retirement as well as additional provisions after retirement.
Office for Faculty Equity & Welfare administers the Pathway to Retirement Option.
Professor Emeritus Sam Davis serves as Faculty Retirement Liaison and is available to meet one-on-one with ladder-rank faculty who are considering retirement. Sam is available to help identify common issues and ways for the campus to address them, as well as offers assistance in negotiating pre- and post-retirement arrangements with chairs and deans, including Pathway to Retirement agreements.
A faculty member who is retiring may be eligible for post-retirement appointment as a Professor of the Graduate School (PGS). A PGS is expected to be engaged in research, to contribute with distinction to a graduate program, and to be in residence for the equivalent of one semester during each academic year in which the PGS title is held.
In partnership with the UC Berkeley Emeriti Association, the Retirement Center offers a special workshop titled "Faculty Thriving in Retirement." This workshop invites faculty contemplating retirement as well as recently retired emeriti to explore life in retirement, how to stay connected with colleagues and campus, and how to include loved ones in the transition.
Thinking About Retirement
Thinking about Retirement: Policies for late-career and retired faculty.
By Karie Frasch, Marc Goulden, Angelica Stacy, and Janet Broughton, UC Berkeley
An article published by faculty in the Office of Faculty Equity and Welfare, in Academe
https://www.aaup.org/article/thinking-about-retirement#.Xl_dzqhKhhG
Book Donations
Better World Books
http://www.betterworldbooks.com/go/donatebooks
Better World Books collects and sell books in order to help support and fund literacy initiatives worldwide.
They operate through a network of over 2,300 college campuses and partnerships with over 3,000 libraries nationwide.
Sales from books support literacy organizations changing the world through teaching kids, supporting families, building schools and filling libraries. In fact, a percentage of the net sale price of every book goes to these causes. Any books they can’t sell are either donated directly to one of their non-profit partners or recycled.
Large donations:
Please contact us at clientservices@betterworldbooks.com
Dropbox locations closest to campus:
Powell Street Plaza: BDB
5795 Christie Ave
Emeryville, CA 94608
El Cerrito Plaza: BDB
6050 El Cerrito Plaza
El Cerrito, CA 94530
Ygnacio Plaza: BDB
1881 Ygnacio Valley Road
Walnut Creek, CA 94598
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