Can I be appointed to the Research Staff as a Senior Research Scholar if I elect to sign the New Retirement Plan?
Faculty members who can support more than 50% of their annual salary through grants and contracts can request that they be appointed to the research staff as a benefits-eligible Senior Research Scholar upon their retirement from the faculty. To pursue this option, the faculty member would relinquish their tenure on their retirement date, going to emeritus faculty status, transfer to the Research Staff as a Research Staff Member and work 50% or more duty-time as a benefits-eligible Senior Research Scholar fully supported by research funding. When faculty members choose this option—to work as a benefits-eligible Senior Research Scholar, their initial FTE salary in this rank will be a 12-month salary equivalent to their academic year salary plus 2.5 summer 9ths of salary, corresponding to 1.278 times your academic year FTE salary. A 10-month research staff appointment is also available. In the years following the initial appointment to the rank of Senior Research Scholar, the salary will
