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- Individual Professional Individuals
professionally qualified by education or experience, who devote at least 5O
percent of their working time to public relations activities and pay their
own dues. The membership belongs to the individual.
- Institutional Professional Any organization,
corporation, governmental agency or similar institution may join and appoint
representatives who are professionally qualified by education or experience
and devote at least 50 percent of their working time to public relations
activities. The organization pays the dues and owns the membership.
- Multiple Professional Institutional Any
organization, corporation, governmental agency or similar institution may
join and appoint several representatives who are professionally qualified by
education or experience, devote at least 50 percent of their working time to
public relations activities and are employed in the same location
(building). In addition to lower annual dues, multi-professional members are
eligible for lower annual conference registration fees. The organization
pays the dues and owns the membership.
- Retired Professional Membership Any
professional memberwho has retired from the full time practice of public
relations forprofitand has reached 62 years of age or more, shall be
eligible for retired professional membership.
- Life Membership Any member of the association
who has demonstrated extraordinary service to the profession and the
association at both the state and local level, upon the recommendation of
the Past President's Council to the Board of Directors, followed by
unanimous vote of both the board and the membership present at any regular
meeting, shall be eligible for life membership. Life members shall not be
liable for dues or assessments.
Non-voting memberships:
- Allied Any person, either as an individual or
representative of a firm or corporation, interested in the activities of the
association and in an allied field of the public relations profession, is
eligible for allied membership. As with professional memberships, if the
individual pays the dues, he or she owns the membership. If an organization
pays, the membership belongs to the organization.
- Associate A person professionally or
academically qualified for professional membership, but who is temporarily
not actively engaged in a public relations position. This membership is
available for a maximum of one year.
- Student Full-time students enrolled in
accredited institutions of learning and interested in public relations.
Student memberships run from September 1 - August 31.
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