permitted to enroll in the ORP only if he or she satisfies both the requirement of SAAO status
and the requirement of faculty status, as defined above.
The enrollment of any employee who became a member of the ORP prior to the date of this
administrative memorandum is not affected by the board policy and the attendant restriction
based on faculty status. However, unless and until the board policy is changed, when an ORP-
enrolled incumbent administrative employee vacates a position, the successor appointee must
satisfy the applicable SAAO and faculty-status prerequisites for enrollment in the ORP.
Anticipated Future Actions
The decisions of the Board of Governors on November 13, 1998, when fully implemented,
constitute a major step in achieving a more coherent and useful configuration and management
of university employment. However, as anticipated in several recommendations of the SAAO
Review Committee (Attachment 2), additional steps will be required to complete work on the
administrative category of employment.
First, the committee observed that some campuses may wish to augment their original list of
SPA positions nominated as appropriate for conversion to SAAO status, based on the Board of
Governors definitions. An opportunity to augment such lists, based on further review of each
institutional work force, will be provided in the near future.
Second, there may be a number of administrative positions that historically have been treated as
EPA but for which no entirely satisfactory rationale for exemption has been posited (e.g.,
positions within the so-called EPA non-faculty category of university employment) or which
may fit more appropriately within the revised “instructional and research” complement. An
inventory of such positions will be undertaken in the future to determine how they should be
arrayed, so as to fit clearly within either the SAAO category or the instructional and research
category, or be changed to an SPA classification.
Finally, it will be necessary, in the interest of fidelity to board standards and consistency among
campuses, to reexamine some positions that currently may be considered SAAO by the campuses
