In response to the change in UGA RIF requirements, the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs has revised its policy and guidelines for postdoc appointments and terminations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to no longer requiring an RIF for grant-funded postdocs, units now have two distinct options for postdoc appointments: defined term and open term. Faculty\/units can choose which best suits their needs based on the nature of the funding available.\u00a0The defined-term option requires an up-front defined end date and formal continuation letters, and has less notice requirement at the time of separation, while the open-term option does not require a defined end date or formal continuation letters, but requires additional notice at termination (and may be subject to RIF if the position is state funded).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Details of these changes can be found on pages 3 and 4 of the updated UGA Policy for Postdoctoral Appointments, found here<\/a>. Updated templates for both defined-term and open-term offer letters can be found here<\/a> and must be used for all new postdoctoral appointments effective April 11, 2022. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In addition to no longer requiring an RIF for grant-funded postdocs, units now have two distinct options for postdoc appointments: defined term and open term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-compliance"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 11:39:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/research-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}