I'd like to see the college consider allowing retiring cabinet members who have less than 10 years of full-time service be eligible for emeritus status.

What determines "Good Status?"

What qualifications does the executive cabinet have to select or approve emeritus status, and what are the written qualifications?

What constitutes removal from emeritus status?

1. policy - The policy statement does not state what Emeritus status does for employees. Consider the adding the following sentence before the last sentence: “The conferral of Emeritus status provides the retired employees certain honors and benefits for their meritorious and distinguished service to the college.”
3.1 - In the personnel definitions link, there is no definition for what Emeritus means.
3.2 - Consider adding an Emeritus definition as follows: “An honorary status awarded to retired SLCC employees in recognition of their meritorious or distinguished service to Salt Lake Community College. In the context of this policy, the term “meritorious” embraces contributions to the college’s mission and goals while “distinguished” embraces scholarly contributions to the individual’s field of study.” (Derived from Boise State University’s policy)
4.A.1-This section does not state the criteria for eligibility for emeritus status. Are all employees who submitted retirement papers entitled to Emeritus status if they worked at the college for 10 years?
4.A.2 - Consider adding a link for eligibility criteria which is more specific than what is currently in the policy.
4.A.3.-The committee discussed several options regarding a retiree’s eligibility for Emertus status which are as follows:

1. All employees who retire from the college and have served for 10 years are automatically eligible for Emeritus status. This was the preferred approach.
2. Establish clear eligibility objectives. See 4.A.2 above.
3. Consider adding an eligibility criterion for employees who have served SLCC for less than 10 years. This was recently done at the college for a Vice President for Finance and Administration who only worked at the college for three years. The following language was adapted from the Boise State University policy.

“Emeritus status is accorded to faculty who have provided meritorious or distinguished service to the College and who have fulfilled the following criteria:

1. Completed at least ten (10) Years of Service at SLCC, or
2. Completed less than ten (10) Years of Service at SLCC, but in the opinion of the recommending Department, the candidate has demonstrated either meritorious service or distinguished achievement in their time at SLCC; and
3. Is in good standing with the College.

4.B.1 -In section 4.B, the committee has significant concerns with the nomination process. Several committee members related incidents where a long serving employee was not nominated for Emeritus status because of a personality conflict with their supervisors.
4.B.2 In section 4.B. another concern with the nomination process was sometimes a new supervisor was not aware of the Emeritus process. Consequently, a 30-year employee was not nominated as Emeritus due to the fact his or her supervisor has only been employed by the college for 1 or 2 years.
4.B.3 The committee unanimously felt that Emeritus status should be conferred for a retiree who has served ten years and is in good standing with the college.
4.B.4 In section 4.B.2.a, the Emeritus Nomination Form link does not work. This link should be corrected. The webpage says: “the resource you are looking for has been removed, had its named changed or is temporarily unavailable.’
4.B.4 aA copy of the Emertus Nomination Form was finally located on the “Human Resources Form” webpage near the bottom. On the form, it states that the deadline to submit an Emeritus Nomination Form is the “first Friday in March.” This deadline should be added to the policy.
4.B.5 . In section 4.B.2 to 4.B.5, the process set forth seemed like “paper pushing” or too bureaucratic. The committee suggested two options to address this:

1. Make all employees who retire and have at least 10 years at the college automatically qualify for Emeritus status; and
2. Place the responsibility for processing nominations on People and Workplace Culture and not with the various departments.

4.B.6 In the Emeritus Nomination Form which is on the SLCC PWC Human Resources Form Webpage, there is a requirement that a letter of recommendation be submitted along with an optional requirement that a resume be submitted. While the committee is not sure about whether all these things should be required, if they are, then they should be listed in the policy.
4.C.1. In section 4.C.1, the focus is on faculty and administrative positions. Is a custodian or administrative assistant who has spent 30 years at the college eligible for Emeritus Status. This is an equity issue, and the wording should be revised.
4.C.2. Section 4.C.2 and 4.D.2 are inconsistent. For example, section 4.D.2 states “Individuals who are awarded emeritus status are not considered employees.” Meanwhile, 4.C.2 states “Emeritus status continues in perpetuity unless the recipient violates college policy and procedures.” Do college policy and procedures apply to persons with Emeritus status? Consider status that: “persons who are conferred Emeritus status are required to comply with college policies and procedures. If they violated these policies and procedures or act in a manner not in alignment with the college’s values, the college president may revoke the person’s emeritus status” or words to this effect.
4.C.3Consider consolidating 4.C.2 and 4.C.3. In the comment above this has been done.
4.C.4 In section 4.C.3, it is suggested that if the president revokes emeritus status that the president must state why the status is being revoked.
4.D.1. In section 4.D.1, the link to the SLCC People & Workplace Culture website needs improvement. While the link works, it takes you to a general webpage. On the webpage, you must click on Employee Recognition. Once on this webpage, you need to click on SLCC Emeritus Awardees. The link should be revised to go directly to the SLCC Emertus Awardees webpage.
4.D.2 In section 4.D.2, it states that Emertus “provides no stipends or remuneration”, yet the SLCC Emeritus Awardees webpage give an Emertus “tuition waivers for you and your spouse”, “free SLCC parking permit”, and 10% discounts at the College store and Grand Theater. Each of these benefits has financial value.
4.D. 3 On the Emeritus webpage, it states that Emeritus receive “tuition waivers for you and your spouse.” Under the Tuition Benefits policy, eligible dependents are 1) a legal spouse; 2) a domestic partner; and 3) a natural or legally adopted child under the age of 26. See Tuition Benefits Policy Section IV.A.7.

1. A domestic partner of a person with Emeritus status should be eligible for tuition waivers. This is an equity issue.
2. Are the children of a person with Emeritus status eligible for tuition waivers?

Finally, reviewing Emeritus policy from Boise State, some items to consider Who starts the process
Is it in HR, is it another employee? We recommended that all employees with 10 years.
Boise state allows the individual to apply for themselves. They submit an online application to HR for validation of years of service and performance evaluations
It then goes to the department where the Dean needs to consult with members of the department and then recommendation sent back to HR
Privileges and benefits of rehires – “all emeritus privileges not in conflict with the rehired employment position remain.
They have an appeal process for anyone that has had their privileges revoked (can be done by a VP or Dean). President has final say in an appeal