Dear Retiring and Retired Faculty,

We are happy to be issuing Retiree Update 4 of the 2022-2023 academic year.  We hope that many of you will be able to join us at our last event of the year, a brunch for all retiring and retired faculty. 

Life Writing, Memoir, and Autobiography
We’d like to thank Juan Velasco for his presentation on Life Writing, Memoir, and Autobiography on May 5. Click here for the recording and the materials Juan shared.

Aging and Cognitive Health
For Patti Simone’s February presentation on Aging and Cognitive Health, click here.

• Sleep, Memory, and Aging, by Tracey Kahan, Professor Emerita, Psychology
• Grief, Loss, and Mourning, by Dale Larson, Professor, Counseling Psychology
• Strategies for a Meaningful Retirement, presenter TBA

Please let us know your recommendations for additional presentations.

For many of us, retirement provides an opportunity to do more reading.

We’d love to hear your reading recommendations.  Here are a few of our recent favorites in fiction:

• Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood, 2023
• Hernan Diaz, Trust, 2022
• Percival Everett, Trees, 2021
• Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry, 2022
• Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter, 2022
• Barbara Kingsolver,  Demon Copperhead, 2022
• Walter Mosley, Every Man a King, 2023
• Amor Towles, Lincoln Highway, 2021
• Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris, 2022

And here is an article and a short book on retirement and aging:

• Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Well: Life Advice from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You, 2022
• Susan Shaw, “Retirement Planning for Professors,” IHE, 2023: 

For more reading on time and social engagement, you may enjoy:

• Non-fiction: The Good Life by Waldinger and Schultz 
• Fiction: The Measure by Nikki Erlick

As announced in Update 3, beginning in August 2023, the SCU Human Resources Department will provide one year of free membership in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) to eligible retired faculty and staff, to be redeemed within the first two years of retirement. This is a wonderful introductory offer into the Lifelong Learning Institute here at Santa Clara. Eligibility:  Participants must be retired faculty or retired staff (Staff Policy 624 or Faculty Retirement).   To take part in this offering, please contact the Osher office at 408-554-2382 or olliatscu.edu@gmail.com. 

See scu.edu/osher for a complete list of course offerings and events. (Membership is required for registration in OLLI classes. There is an additional fee for each class.)

Please be aware that retired faculty can request a free parking permit by filling out this form and submitting it to the Transportation Services office. Permit form must be submitted yearly. A parking permit is necessary for all on-campus lots, including (as of July 2023) the Guadalupe lot. 

The Checklist is still a work in progress. In the meantime, see the Faculty Affairs retirement website for information on retirement resources, policies, and benefits.

Several of our colleagues have passed away during this academic year. We remember with gratitude the gift of their lives and their many generous contributions to the University.

Dennis Moberg, Management, May 31, 2023

Shelby McIntyre, Marketing, May 23, 2023

Rick Scott, Mathematics, April 12, 2023

Teresia Hinga, Religious Studies, March 31, 2023

Denise Carmody, Religious Studies, March 14, 2023

Joseph G. Mueller, S.J, Jesuit School of Theology, January 12, 2023

Sam Hernandez, Art and Art History, October 17, 2022

Previous Retiree Updates have been archived -- click HERE.

We welcome your suggestions for events, interest groups, discussions, and updates on your retirement activities. Contact Ruth Davis or Diane Jonte-Pace, Retiree Liaisons to Faculty Development.

Thank you, 

Ruth Davis, Computer Science and Engineering, Phased Retirement Liaison for Faculty Development

Diane Jonte-Pace, Religious Studies, Professor Emerita, Retiree Liaison for Faculty Development