About Us
The Retirement Center is beginning
the tenth year of its expanded programming and services.
We serve retired faculty, staff, and surviving spouse beneficiaries
from UC Berkeley, UC Office of the President,
and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Many of
the same pioneering individuals who had formed the Retiree and Emeriti Associations at Cal
in the late 70’s and early 80’s were also instrumental in developing a support
structure and creating resources so that the Center could serve all retired faculty, staff
and surviving spouse beneficiaries. Now, the Center serves almost 14,000 constituents from
three institutions in the UC family: UC Berkeley; UC Office of the President; and the Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory.
Over these years, we have worked to extend into retirement discounted
rates and privileged access to campus programs and services through our Cal Connection program.
Our Learning
in Retirement (LIR) program, begun in 2000,
has attracted over
1,000 unduplicated Center participants. Your recent financial contributions, the dedicated
efforts of board members and LIR creators Donald A. Riley and Melvin Webber, and the donated
time of emeriti and active faculty allow us to offer these programs at no cost. The interest
in our basic computer classes, developed by
a retiree committee and taught by Center staff, has been so great that we have added intermediate
and advanced sessions.
Since 1999, we have offered active faculty and staff nearing retirement
a comprehensive eight-part pre-retirement planning course that has educated many and informed
their transition out of a full-time career.
The Center has also developed the Retiree Work Opportunities program (RWO)
that provides a free, web-based way to connect retired faculty or staff to campus hiring
managers who have part-time, temporary project needs. Through this newsletter, we try to
keep you up to date about campus programs, services and campus leadership changes that we
think might be of interest to you.
Your
contributions of time and money have been a critical factor in our success. When state budget
woes threatened our survival, we were able to continue our programming despite 20% cuts.
As those cuts have not been restored to our budget, we continue to depend on your gifts.
Our fall CenterPiece newsletter has our donor honor roll, which recognizes your generosity.
It has been our pleasure and privilege to be of service to you. We look forward
to our continued work on your behalf.
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