Among those eligible to participate in the Optional Retirement Plan are:

  • teaching and administrative faculty

  • librarians with academic rank

  • intercollegiate coaches (with or without academic rank), and

  • administrators with budgetary authority.

  • employees hired on or after July 1, 2001, as (a) an intern or resident in training at the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine under a teaching program, or (b) as a post doctoral assistant or post doctoral fellow, or (c) as a research scientist without academic rank.

CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TO CONTINUE

Go to additional information on PERS (for employees who are not eligible to participate in the Optional Retirement Plan).

OR

Go to additional information on both the ORP and PERS.