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Emeritus & Retired Faculty & Staff Association
The Humboldt-Emeritus, Retired Faculty and Staff Association (Humboldt-ERFSA), working with the statewide organization (CSU-ERFSA), strives to secure and protect the rights & benefits of Humboldt/CSU retirees.
The association works to keep Cal Poly Humboldt retirees connected with each other and with the activities that are ongoing at the Cal Poly Humboldt campus. We have monthly luncheons during the academic year with dynamic and versatile speakers. Presenters include faculty, staff and students affiliated with Cal Poly Humboldt, as well as the occasional community members.
All California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt retirees who are CALPERS annuitants, any Cal Poly Humboldt emeritus faculty or staff, and CALPERS annuitant retirees from other CSU campuses, are eligible for membership in this Association, as well as encouraged to become members in the CSU Emeritus and Retired Faculty and Staff Association.
How to join ERFSA:
(local and state organizations)
Humboldt-ERFSA
(local organization)
To join Humboldt-ERFSA, pay electronically at: Cashnet or send a check to the Cashier’s Office, SBS 285, 1 Harpst St., Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata, CA 95521. Emeritus status is not a requirement for joining ERFSA.
Semester dues are only $35.00 to help defray the cost of advertising, mailings, socials, and other miscellaneous expenses. You can click the down arrow in the "Quantity" drop-down menu to pay for up to two (2) semesters at a time, shown below:
CSU-ERFSA
(statewide organization)
To join CSU-ERFSA please go to CSU-ERFSA Membership. CSU-ERFSA dues range from $5 to $10 per month depending on the retiree's gross monthly retirement benefit from CalPERS (or in a few cases STRS). A portion of these dues is returned to the member's local affiliated campus retiree organization if any. The membership information page includes more details and a membership application. For more information visit csuerfsa.org.
Emeritus Status
See Emeritus Status tab for information on how to apply, benefits of emeritus status, obtaining an ID and parking permit, verifying status (for retirees prior to December 2020), and for a list of retirees granted emeritus status after January 1, 2021.
Meeting/Event Schedule
Time: 11:30 am
Place: In-person Meeting at Baywood Golf and Country Club 3600 Buttermilk Ln, Arcata , CA
September 11, 2025: Justin Luong, 2024 Grant Recipient, Assistant Professor, Forestry, Fire and Rangeland Management.
"The effect of local solar microgrids on rangeland vegetation and soils"
Solar microgrids may be an important production method to help meet growing clean energy demands but could impact rangeland ecosystems. We evaluated how solar microgrid developments affected the in situ plant communities and soil properties of three soil microgrids on coastal prairies in Humboldt county. Initial findings suggest that solar microgrids affected plant communities but did not strongly affect soil biogeochemistry.
Introduction by Jeffry Borgeld, Humboldt-ERFSA Membership Chair
https://justinluong.com/menu/currentresearch.html
October 9, 2025: Silvia E. Pavan, 2024 Grant Recipient, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences.
"An exploratory expedition to Rio Abiseo National Park: revealing a mysterious new species of mammal and garnering genomic resources from a World Heritage Site"
I am broadly interested in biodiversity, and I work with fieldwork exploration and collections-based research to discover and describe species, and to understand small mammals diversity and evolution. I am going to share with you some of the results from an exploratory expedition to Rio Abiseo National Park in Peru. I am investigating the unknown diversity on this World Heritage Site, revealing high endemicity and several new species of small mammals. Publication: The one describing the new species of marsupial, and please follow this link for an outreach publication framing a new marsupial species, described as a result of the project (published last month!).
Introduction by Susan Dobie, Humboldt-ERFSA Program Chair
November 13, 2025 (sequential speakers):
Introductions by LouAnn Wieand, Humboldt-ERFSA Treasurer
12:00 - 12:30 PM
Amy K. Conley, 2022 Grant Recipient, Lecturer, Education.
"Building community and identity through local language practice"
We aimed to increase a sense of belonging at school, attendance, and connectedness to tribes for indigenous 8th graders by having tribal elders teach greetings and names for local fauna for three local indigenous languages and Spanish. We were successful in our efforts as well as increasing the number of indigenous and non-indigenous students planning to take an additional language as high school freshmen.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gBEdnWcZKZIKbOrqkdseH-jP-Mxi4Bdb_4pdVA150SE/edit?usp=sharing
12:30 - 1:00 PM
Morgan Barker, 2023 Grant Recipient, Sustainability Librarian, University Library.
"Sustainable Librarianship - Sustainable Library Certification at Cal Poly Humboldt"
This Certification is helping to define a new and intentional dimension of librarianship. Over the past two years, all Library faculty and staff have been on a collaborative journey toward earning Sustainability Library Certification. Through this collective effort, we have demonstrated just how deeply library work is woven into the fabric of academics and curriculum, research, and community engagement.
https://libguides.humboldt.edu/sustainability/sustainable_library_certification
December 11, 2025: Amy Uyeki and Vicki Ozaki, Team HAPI Members.
"Under One Umbrella: Building and Empowering the Community of Humboldt's Asian and Pacific Islanders"
Since its inception in 2021, Humboldt Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity (HAPI) have worked to empower the Asian American/PI community and amplify diverse voices and perspectives for a more engaged and inclusive future. Team HAPI members Amy Uyeki and Vicki Ozaki will provide an overview of HAPI with current and past projects. One focus will be the Eureka Chinatown Project (ECP) which is reclaiming the dark history of the Eureka Chinatown expulsion and its relevance in our lives today. Plans for the Eureka Chinatown monument will be shared as well as envisioning future projects for both ECP and HAPI.
Introduction by Kumi Watanabe-Schock, Humboldt-ERFSA Communication Chair
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zu8sNjDtuQsVJk0rdxHeq6ApHcYLb27E/view?usp=drivesdk