ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the author’s efforts as faculty, staff, and administrators to develop a system that is sustainable and mutually beneficial for the stakeholders, including faculty, the university, its organizational partners, and the outside community. For the engaged retirement ecosystem to thrive, the University of Baltimore (UB) needs to establish a mechanism or provide opportunities for those faculty transitioning into retirement to explore how they might continue to contribute to UB, its students, and its future, as well as direct their talents to community outreach activities. With the definition of engaged retirement in mind, the chapter conceptualizes an “ecosystem” that would encourage engagement through interactions among faculty, the university, and external organizations that are mutually beneficial and self-sustaining. UB has clearly articulated procedures to grant emeriti status to faculty in their final year at the university.
