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From the Director:

The UCLA Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center (ERRC) is a "model" for such Centers in higher education throughout the nation. As noted in the timeline that follows, the Center was founded in 1969. Over the years, it has evolved to an entity which employs best practices. Our hallmark of excellence is seen in the programs and services offered to our distinguished faculty and staff. We endeavor to bring creative and innovative ways in which our constituency will continue to learn, and remain a part of the university community. It is through their efforts that the University enjoys the renowned reputation it has today. As we gain momentum in the 21st century, we are excited about new horizons we will explore.


Our Mission:

The Center serves as the official connecting link between UCLA Emeriti/Retirees and the University. We are dedicated to maintaining knowledge of campus, systemwide and community resources and policies to facilitate our retirement educational programs and services. Our top priority is to enhance the quality of life in retirement in a professional and caring environment.

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Timeline and Development:

The Center occupies a unique place in the University's organization and history and has a unique history of its own. An abridged version of its history follows:

1967 ~ Emeritus professors form an association to represent and act as advocate of the emeriti to the University and campus administration. The association is the first organization of its kind in the country.
1968 ~ The UCLA Emeriti Association formally adopts its Constitution and Bylaws.
1969 ~ Chancellor Charles E. Young, at the request of a group of Emeriti representing the UCLA Emeriti Association, establishes the Emeriti Center. Marian G. Broome, the Center's founding director, is appointed. The Emeriti Center becomes a campus retirement benefits and privileges liaison for Emeriti professors and surviving spouses. An individual and group post-retirement benefits program for the Emeriti is initiated and offered for the first time in UCLA's history. The Center carries out its responsibilities in 3109 Murphy Hall. The first newsletter, Emeriti Reporter, written and distributed by the Emeriti Center includes a supporting statement from Chancellor Young.
1970 ~ The Center compiles the first official roster of the UCLA Emeriti and Surviving Spouses and a Retirement Housing Resource/Referral file. The Center becomes another UCLA resource for the University of California health care and group insurance benefits and related information including brochures, claim forms, reference materials and counseling. The Center relocates to 2324 Murphy Hall with office hours from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
1971 ~ The Center develops an affiliation with the UC annuitants benefits office. The Center receives recognition for its benefits activities and functions. The Center takes up new quarters in 233D Murphy Hall.
1972 ~ The Center's services expand to include post-retirement counseling and seminars for Emeriti and surviving spouses and pre-retirement education seminars for active faculty. A comprehensive Emeriti program assumes a strong pre-retirement program. The first emeriti identification cards are designed and distributed.
1973 ~ Marian G. Broome accepts the official title, Director. The Center moves to 3117 Murphy Hall.
1974 ~ The Center relocates to 3109 Murphy.
1975/1977 ~ The Faculty Welfare Committee of the UCLA Academic Senate establishes the University Emeriti and Pre-Retirement Relations Committee (UEPRRC) which requests Center liaison and support. The Center becomes actively involved in local, state and national organizations and studies on aging including California Higher Education Study on Aging, the County and State Departments on Aging, the USC/UCLA Gerontological Consortium, the Association for Gerontology, and the US Department on Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) national study on Pre-Retirement planning programs. Marian G. Broome, Director of the Emeriti Center, serves on the national HEW task force, a two-year study program charged with creating a national model for pre-retirement planning programs.
1978 ~ The Center grows in popularity as many emeriti request additional services. Financial and estate planning augment the roster of activities. Legal and financial consultants volunteer their expertise as a courtesy through the Center responding to the financial and estate planning questions and needs raised by the Center's growing population of clients, emeriti and surviving spouses.
1979 ~ Retiring University staff seek a campus resource that will respond to their needs as the Emeriti Center responds to the needs of retiring and retired faculty. Thus, the Center expands to include pre-retirement workshops and individual consultation for staff.
1980 ~ The work of the Center continues to receive recognition during 1980-1981. The Office of the President publishes a University of California Retirement System (UCRS) annual report in which the Emeriti Center is recognized by President Saxon as a campus retirement benefits service office. The Emeriti Center offers comprehensive pre- and post-retirement benefits information and counseling and retirement education workshops and seminars.
1981/1982 ~ Retiring and retired staff call the Emeriti Center as a source of support and information for placement in part-time work at the University. As a result, the Retired Employee Applicant Pool (REAP), which matches retired staff with campus departments looking for part-time help, comes into existence. During this same time period, the Emeriti Center helps organize the University of California Staff Retirees' Association at Los Angeles (UCRALA), a membership organization, like the Emeriti Association, whose purpose is to provide a vehicle for UCLA retired staff activities and continued affiliation with the campus.
1983 ~ The Center moves to A-253 Murphy Hall.
1985 ~ Retired faculty, very much involved in continuing research and teaching, express a need for typing and word-processing support. In response to the request by these emeriti, the Center establishes the Emeriti Academic Support Unit which provides clerical and administrative support for professionally active emeriti.
1986 ~ The Center begins to formally collect demographic data and to prepare statistical reports regarding UCLA retirees that are distributed to UC administration, the Academic Senate Committees and University departments. The Center also develops databases of selected information on retired faculty and staff.
1988 ~ The Center's growth in clientele leads to the establishment of a library and clearinghouse of information and resources about the growing field of retirement education.
1989 ~ The Center celebrates its 20th anniversary. The Emeriti Center formally establishes a volunteer program that encourages retired faculty and staff to help with the numerous programs and activities offered at the Center. These include mass mailings, Systemwide Open Enrollment Benefits Fair's, publicity, pre- and post-retirement education workshops, seminars, counseling and research. The Center becomes solely responsible for coordinating and distributing parking applications and permits adding significantly to its responsibilities in processing 573 parking applications for retired faculty and staff.
1990 ~ At the request of non-Academic Senate academic retirees and staff retirees, the Emeriti Center is formally renamed the Emeriti/Retiree Relations Center. The Center publishes and distributes a UCLA Retirement Handbook. A Mentor Program results from the Center's collaboration with the UCLA College of Letters and Science which provides undergraduate students with retired faculty mentors.
1991 ~ The initiation of the University's Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Program (VERIP/PLUS 5) adds dramatically to the responsibilities of the Center. The Center, up to then serving 469 Emeriti and 2000 retired staff, embraces an additional 158 emeriti and 531 staff.
1991/1992 ~ The Center continues to respond to the growing and changing needs of its clientele by creating a faculty re-hire program, expanding relationships with internal and external campus organizations, departments and agencies and by continuing to publish a newsletter distributed to annuitants and campus departments.
1992 ~ The Center develops a satellite at the Faculty Center offering workshops, seminars and discussion of issues affecting annuitants. A facsimile machine and Notary Public services enhance the academic and administrative support offered by the Center. A second Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Program (VERIP II Take 5) brings 15% more staff employees to the annuitant base already served by the Center. The Center undergoes its first administrative review by an Administrative Committee appointed by Vice Chancellor-Academic Affairs, Norman Abrams.
1993 ~ The Center forms partnership relations with the UCLA Human Resources Division delineating individual responsibilities between pre- and post-retirement programs. The Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Program II (VERIP II-Take 5) for faculty brings 11% more faculty to the annuitant base already served by the Center. Later in the year, VERIP III gains another 20% in staff and an additional 26% in emeriti faculty. The Center celebrates its 25th anniversary.
1994/1995 ~ The Center develops a survey to explore issues related to retirement. Connection to the Campus backbone gives the Center access to the Internet. The Emeriti Association moves its archives to the Center. With an initial donation from the children of Raymond H. Fisher, the Center establishes a memorial fund in honor of their father to carry on his compassionate works and services.
1995/1996 ~ The Center mails the UCLA Emeriti/Retirees Survey. Strategies are developed and implemented for evaluating Retirement Survey data. Raymond Fisher Friends of the UCLA Emeriti/Retiree Relations Center organizes and recruits the founding members. The Director negotiates Bruin OnLine privileges for eligible retired academicians and staff (Emeriti automatically eligible). The Center acts as a Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) Long Term Care facilitator for the Office of the President Insurance and Benefits Office, Council of UC Emeriti Associations and Council of UC Staff Retiree Associations.
1998 ~ Marian Broome, founding director of the Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center retires after 29 years of dedicated service. New director, Eddie Murphy is appointed in May.
1999 ~ The Center celebrates it's 30th anniversary. First annual emeriti/retirees picnic held on the grounds of UES. Association presidents appoint members to an advisory board to establish a Fund to accept gifts to support the Center.
2000/2001 ~ Notary services offered to all staff retirees, emeriti and surviving spouses. An ad-hoc committee is formed to explore the feasibility of building a retirement facility for staff retirees and emeriti.
2002 ~ Computer training is offered to retirees
2003 ~ Center sponsors walks with Dr. Breslow
           Center establishes Emeriti Speakers Bureau
2006 ~ Director, Eddie Murphy is awarded the UCLA Excellence in Service Award
2007 ~ Groundbreaking Belmont Village (4/22/07)Warner and Wilshire facility, called “Belmont Village at Westwood,” is owned by Belmont Corp of Houston, Texas, and will be rented to its occupants. Groundbreaking for this facility was held on April 22, with participants from  BelmontCorp, the local homeowners association, the Westwood United Methodist Church (the landowner), and UCLA. Please see Housing Update Under the Events Link on this website for more detailed information.