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COLLEGE RETIREMENT EQUITIES FUND
(CREF)
SUPPLEMENT NO. 1
dated June 7, 2007
to the May 1, 2007 Statement of Additional Information (SAI)

Change to the Board of Trustees

Effective May 15, 2007, Ms. Nancy Eckl was appointed to the Board of Trustees of CREF. The following information should be added to the trustee chart in CREF’s SAI.

                Number of    
                Portfolios    
                in Fund    
    Position(s)   Term of Office       Complex    
    Held with   and Length of   Principal Occupation(s)   Overseen   Other Directorships
Name, Address and Age
 
CREF
 
Time Served
 
During Past 5 Years
 
by Trustee
 
Held by Trustee
Nancy Eckl   Trustee   One-Year Term.   Former Vice President (1990-2006),   8   Independent Director,
c/o Corporate Secretary       Trustee since   American Beacon Advisors, Inc.,       The Lazard Funds, Inc.,
730 Third Avenue       May 2007.   and Vice President of certain funds       Lazard Retirement
New York, NY 10017-3206           advised by American Beacon Advisors, Inc.       Series, Inc., Lazard
Date of Birth:                   Global Total Return and
10/6/62                   Income Fund, Inc. and
                    Lazard World Dividend
                    and Income Fund, Inc.
                    and Member of the
                    Board of Managers of
                    Lazard Alternative
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Strategies Fund, LLC.

Ms. Eckl will serve as a member of the following Board committees: the Operations Committee and the Investment Committee.

The following should be added to the table disclosing the trustees’ equity ownership in CREF and the TIAA-CREF family of investment companies:

    Aggregate Dollar Range of
    Equity Securities in All
    Registered Investment
    Companies Overseen by
  Dollar Range of Equity Trustee in Family of
  Securities in CREF Investment Companies
 Name of Trustee (as of May 31, 2007) (as of May 31, 2007)
 Nancy Eckl* None None
*Ms. Eckl was appointed as a CREF trustee effective May 15, 2007.  

Additionally, under the existing column entitled “Other Directorships Held by Trustees” in the trustee chart, the reference to Ms. Bridget Macaskill as Director of J. Sainsbury plc should be deleted.

A 11453
06/07