PART 1: AUTHORITY AND PURPOSE

Authority: The Board of Regents has delegated authority to the provost and chief academic officer, in consultation with the faculty through the Faculty Senate to forumulate and amend operational policies addressing faculty or academic administrator position rights and responsibilities, RPM 6.10.  

PART 2: KEY POLICY STATEMENT(S)

The university provides for the emeritus faculty member the privileges and services available to all other faculty members. In furthering this objective, the following policies pertain:

1. Emeritus status: Emeritus status for faculty is based upon two conditions.
   1. That the faculty member is eligible for retirement under the New Mexico Educational Retirement Act or the Federal Civil Service; and
   2. That the faculty member is tenured by the university; or is a college faculty who has been promoted (as per College Faculty promotion policies) to the rank of college associate professor or higher.
2. Emeritus Benefits: Individual emeritus faculty shall be listed for life as emeriti in the official university directory. Emeritus faculty will receive general university publications upon request. They may be issued identification cards; be listed in the university phone directory; have on-campus office or work facilities (if available, requested, and approved); and may be requested as an emeritus consultant.

PART 3: KEY PROCESS ELEMENTS

None

PART 4: DEFINTIONS

None

Supplemental and Related Information

(For Administrative Purposes "Non-Exhaustive")

Cross-Reference:

ARP 8.12 - Retirement, Educational (ERB)

Revision History:

08/01/2024 Amendment approved by President
08/13/2020 Amendment approved by Chancellor
2017 Recompilation, formerly Rule 5.55
07/20/2010 Amendment approved by Board of Regents

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