Events, Meetings and Speakers

How to attend MSURA Zoom meetings. (pdf)  Or watch a video on how to attend https://, 2023youtu.be/NOY5OMwU1es

• Friday August 15, 2025, Lugnuts game with clubhouse buffet  

  Get the registration form here.

• Monday, 9/8/2025 1:30PM Abby Richey, MSU University Health & Wellbeing Registered Dietitian, Presenting Eating for Your Health

  Abby Richey, MSU University Health & Wellbeing Registered Dietitian, will speak on Sept. 8 at the first Membership Meeting of the 2025-2026 year. “Eating for Better Living, A Senior Nutrition Presentation” will be the topic and she hopes to share ideas for what eating for better living looks Abby Richey like. She hopes to show how attendees can discover ways to enjoy a variety of foods for a vibrant
  life. She’ll explore the way we eat and give us ideas for spicing up our eating routine.
  Abby has over 20 years of experience working as a dietitian. As a registered dietitian nutritionist, she has worked in a variety of settings including health care, public health, food service, sports nutrition, and higher education. Her work at MSU involves serving as lead for the Campus Health Nutrition Services Team, providing individual nutrition counseling, developing and presenting campus outreach programs, developing and teaching academic classes, and mentoring dietetic students.
  Meeting will be held at the MSU Federal Credit Union Farm Lane & Mt Hope branch Community room at 1:30PM - 2PM social and presentation starting at 2PM. The presentation will be recorded and will be available on the retirees.msu.edu website within a few days of the event.

• Friday, 10/10/2025 6PM MSU Homecoming Parade - MSURA Float Entry

  MSURA plans to have another entry into the MSU Homecoming Parade
  this year, which takes place on Friday, Oct. 10. Last year we won a first place award! Let’s do it again! We’re looking for some volunteers to ride on the float and help out in various capacities. It’s fun! If you’re interested, email Rick Vogt at vogtf@msu.edu, and put Homecoming Parade in the subject line.

• Tuesday, 10/14/2025 2PM MSU Benefits Open Enrollment, Presented by MSU Human Resources. Also MSU Pharmacy and MSU Employee Assistance Program will present services they offer.

  Enrollment for benefits including health and dental insurance and other voluntary benefits for the 2026 plan year takes place Oct. 1-31, 2025. Learn more at hr.msu.edu/open-enrollment and be ready with these tips:
  • Review your Benefits Open Enrollment Guide – arriving in your mail- box in mid-September, this guide will provide a complete overview of the Benefits Open Enrollment process and the benefit options available to you. The guide will also be available digitally at hr.msu.edu/open-enrollment in mid-September.• Consider attending the Benefits Fair on Oct. 21 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Breslin Center – Get assistance from the MSU Benefits team and listen to presentations from Humana and Personify Health. Attend presentations for the MSU Medicare Advantage Plan or the MSU Non-Medicare Plan. Details will be available in the Open Enrollment Guide.
  • Consider joining an HR Site Lab either virtually or in person – MSU Human Resources staff will be available during a series of in-person and virtual site labs throughout October to answer questions about your benefit options and help you make changes. Details will be available in the Open Enrollment Guide.
  Attendance at this event is in-person or virtual using Zoom. Meeting will be held at the MSU Federal Credit Union Farm Lane & Mt Hope branch Community room at 1:30PM - 2PM social and presentation starting at 2PM. The presentation will be recorded and will be available on the retirees.msu.edu website within a few
  days of the event. Zoom information to attend virtually, will be available in the E-Notice email the weekend before the event.

• MSURA College Exploration Survey

  The MSURA board is exploring an “MSURA College” idea. (If the idea proves viable, and the MSURA board wants to move ahead, we will determine an actual name.) Below is a link to a very short survey basically asking, is any retiree interested in designing and teaching/facilitating short courses of their own choosing? This is addressed to any retiree that has an interest in something to share. The idea is that this would be an opportunity to stimulate your own mind and the minds of others. This is very preliminary. I see the role of MSURA to facilitate, empower, and inspire. (This is not a resurrection of the past Evening College, but we will be looking at how that operated.) Additionally, below are a couple links of interest:
  First, a presentation by Roger Baldwin on post-retirement in academia and in general.
  Second, an example at Winona State University in Minnesota. For past courses scroll down and look at the PDFs under Past Senior University Programs.
  MSURA College Exploration Survey: The MSU Retirees Association is exploring the concept of short course offerings on the order of 10 contact hours or fewer, supplied by retirees. The courses would be open to retirees, the MSU community and the public. Courses would be proposed by retirees. No grading. Some universities have done something like this with good interest from all parties. To get a pulse of interest, and a rudimental sense of scope, we have a short survey to provide us your feedback on this idea. You can provide your feedback anonymously or provide us your name and contact information. You can put anything (comments/questions) in the notes section.
  Click the word Survey to get started.
  We want to foster cognitive stimulation, community building and community service.
  Thank you.
  Bruce Smith, MSU Retirees Association

Board Meetings:       Board Meeting Minutes 

Members of MSURA are persons officially designated as retired by the Michigan State University Board of Trustees, and their spouses or surviving spouses, (b) upon their written request, persons retired from other employment who had formerly been employed or appointed to adjunct positions by Michigan State University, and their spouses or surviving spouses, and (c) active Michigan State University employees who pay an annual subscription fee as set by the Board of Directors of MSURA.

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