March 5, 1998

Dear Colleagues:

Since my arrival on campus, I have had the opportunity to interact with members of our Emeriti/ae faculty. I have found our Emeriti to be a devoted and integral part of UCLA’s history, its present, and its future. Accordingly, I am pleased to write to reaffirm UCLA’s longstanding policy regarding our Emeriti/ae, and to commit my support for the campus efforts being made on their behalf.

On the campus level, we are supporting the Emeriti Service Center. This office was established to provide a variety of services to Emeriti. Information regarding retirement and other related matters is also available from the Benefits Office, the Staff and Faculty Counseling Center, and the Emeriti Association. The Committee on University Emeriti and Pre-Retirement Relations is the Academic Senate agency responsible for considering Emeriti/ae matters, and my office maintains close contact with that committee.

At the departmental level, we also have certain responsibilities, chief of which is to provide -- to the maximum extent feasible -- facilities and services for those Emeriti/ae who remain professionally active.

As part of our concern for Emeriti/ae, I would like each of you: to continue to take steps to provide to our retired faculty, to the extent that space is available, the opportunity to have adequate office space (either individual or, where that is not feasible, shared) and, to the extent that resources permit, access to appropriate laboratory space and to appropriate departmental services; to ensure that all current Emeriti/ae are appropriately listed in the General Catalogue and in the campus directory; and to consider the role that Emeriti/ae can play in the departmental affairs and provide for their involvement where appropriate.

We recognize the past contributions made to the University by our retired faculty and affairs and provide for their involvement where appropriate.

We recognize the past contributions made to the University by our retired faculty, and we appreciate their importance as a resource of this campus. We should all try to provide, within the limits of our resources, an optimum collegial environment for their continued professional activities.

Sincerely,

Albert Carnesale
Chancellor