The UCSB Emeriti Association was founded in 1978. The central goal has always been to protect your interests, ensuring that university benefits and privileges are sustained. To that end, we are affiliated with the Council of University of California Emeriti Associations (CUCEA) which acts systemwide on behalf of our welfare, as well as the UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Faculty Welfare. Your privileges and benefits include free parking, library privileges, eligibility for Senate research funds, travel grants, and eligibility for appointment as a Research Professor. Our members are also eligible to teach Discovery seminars for UCSB undergraduates.
As an eligible retiree, you are automatically granted membership in the Emeriti Association, which now includes more than 500 members from the UCSB campus. Membership is free and is also available to spouses, domestic partners, and survivors of emeriti. Each spring and fall you will be invited to attend a Zoom-based General Meeting of all emeriti.
Much of the work of the Association is accomplished by the Association Board. This website includes a roster of officers and board members, as well as additional information about who we are and what we do. Our association is supported by the UCSB Emeriti and Retirees Center in the Human Resources Department, and the Center Coordinator is Ellen Pasternack. You will receive regular email communication with announcements of events, benefits updates, and topics of interest to Emeriti retirees.
If your spouse or partner would also like to receive these emails, please notify Ellen Pasternack at epasternack@ucsb.edu or call her at (805) 893-2168.
Through the Emeriti Association Promise Scholarship, we help to support high-achieving, first-generation college students from low-income households who are pursuing undergraduate degrees. We are in the process of developing an emeriti mentorship program for Promise Scholars who have requested professional and academic guidance. The UCSB Emeriti Association has a long history of supporting Promise Scholars thanks to the generosity of our members.
Donate to the Promise Scholars Scholarship
Your support of the Emeriti Association will help us to offer a range of programs that build connections among our retired faculty and the UCSB community. We no longer charge annual dues for membership; we depend on your donations to continue our work.
Donate to the Emeriti Association Program Fund
We owe a debt of gratitude to immediate past President Bill Ashby. In his two terms as President, he revitalized the Association and continues to be actively involved as Chair of the Program Committee and the Emeriti Welfare Committee
Muriel Zimmerman
President
UCSB Emeriti Association
mzimmer@writing.ucsb.edu