NUMBER391
SUBJECTEligibility of Senior Academic
and Administrative Officers
to be enrolled in the
Optional Retirement Program
DATE January 8, 1999

By Administrative Memorandum Number 387, we informed you that a
moratorium had been placed on enrollment in the Optional Retirement
Program of otherwise eligible senior administrative officers of the university
who do not hold faculty rank of instructor or above, due to unresolved
questions about the proper interpretation of the enabling statute, G.S. 135-5.1.
Following additional discussion with interested State officials and the receipt
of an opinion from the Attorney General, we are now prepared to implement
the deferred November 13 authorization by the Board of Governors to offer
enrollment in the ORP, without reference to concurrent faculty status, to:

(a) those persons who heretofore [prior to November 13, 1998] were
appointed to a permanent full-time or permanent three-quarter-
time employment position within the University now designated
[on or before November 13, 1998] as a senior academic or
administrative office and who hereafter properly elect to participate
in the Optional Retirement Program; and

(b) those persons who hereafter are appointed to a permanent full-time
or permanent three-quarter-time employment position within the
University now designated or hereafter designated as a senior
academic or administrative office and who hereafter properly elect
to participate in the Optional Retirement Program.

The board’s provisos to that authorization, embodied in its November 13
resolution and discussed in Administrative Memorandum Number 387,
remain in effect.