For the May 2025 Special Open Enrollment period, medical insurance elections in effect on June 30, 2025 will automatically continue on through December 31, 2025, unless you take action.
This Guide is offered because passive enrollment is unusual at Kalamazoo College. Recommended action, or non-action, will appear at the bottom of the form based on the options selected. You may elect to email the recommendation to yourself.
Have benefit questions? Please contact HR at hr.benefits@kzoo.edu.
Passive Enrollment FAQs
What is the difference between an “active” and a “passive” Open Enrollment?
Historically, Open Enrollment has been an “active” enrollment, meaning that eligible colleagues needed to re-elect their medical, dental, and/or vision coverage or those coverages would end when the renewal date began.
“Passive” enrollment means that non-action will cause the most recent health/dental/vision elections to carry forward .
Why is passive enrollment used during this special open enrollment?
- The addition of Nomi to our Health Plan is significant enough to give people the opportunity to change their health plan, if desired.
- Employee premiums are not changing during this Open Enrollment period, which means the process needed to recalculate current-salary-based employee premiums is not necessary.
- Time is precious. This is a set of circumstances in which we can avoid asking each person to complete a task.