Shafer v. State Employes' Retirement Board

RODGERS, Senior Judge.

Ronald G. Shafer (Shafer) petitions for review of an order of the State Employes’ Retirement Board (Board) denying Shafer’s request to purchase non-state service credit for the 1978-79 academic year that he spent as a Fulbright Scholar lecturing on American Literature at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. We reverse and remand.

Shafer was a professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) beginning in 1970, at which time he first became a member of the State Employes’ Retirement System (SERS). In 1978, Shafer was selected to be a senior Fulbright…