Dear Hugh,

Pleasure speaking with you and thanks for all you have done on behalf of 
University Faculty. I have attached several documents that I thought 
would be of interest to you.
I have been reminding colleagues that during the next 10-30 years it is 
likely that the most important strategic planning issue will be dealing 
with RRP faculty that are unable to retire. As you know the real impact 
of the RRP will start next year with the damages logarithmically 
accruing from 2010 forward. We think than an "RRP Impact Statement" 
should be included with each program, paragraph or inference to any 
strategic planning measure (just a few considerations, building plans 
will need to include all handicapped parking with appropriate wheel 
chair access to buildings, labs and offices, stations for long-term care 
professionals to come to work with senior RRP faculty that are unable to 
retire, cost to University and Colleges associated with faculty that do 
not retire, because sick leave cannot be converted for RRP participants 
they will instead use their years of accumulated sick leave while 
receiving full salary with no money to support the teaching, service and 
research missions that are not being attended by what will likely be 
chronically ill or dieing faculty, no turn-over in  ~70% faculty for 
15-20 years longer than comparative TRS positions, etc, etc, etc, etc, 
etc, etc).

Addttionally, as you have an opportunity to do so on AAUP, College or 
University committees, I believe we should initiate an effort to limit 
the post-tenure review process to 4.

Justification,
1. Someone who is tenured in their 5th, 6th or 7th year would receive 
their 4th post-tenure review in their 26th, 27th, or 28th year of 
service, respectively and should be planning to retire within the next 3 
to 4 years with 30 years of service. Thus, additional post-tenure 
reviews would be unnecessary.
2. Post-tenure review is suppose to be completed with 
peers/contemporaries  in your department (I currently have only 2) and 
seating a committee of qualified peers will be increasingly difficult if 
not impossible after 26 plus years of service.

Please let me know how we can assist you and the AAUP chapters at sister 
institutions resolve the RRP castastrophe.

Sincerely,

Branson W. Ritchie, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ABVP and ECAMS
Distinguished Research Professor