Membership Report
18 February 2006—
As of the morning of 18 February I counted 211 members, paid and unpaid for 2006. 10 of these do not pay full dues (1 student, 8 emeritus and 1 administration).
We count members in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States.
The distribution of members has changed little: US members (mostly unassigned) account for 22% of members. France is next with 14%, then Switzerland at 13%, Italy 12%, Germany 8%, Spain 5%, UK and Greece 4%, Turkey and the Netherlands at 3%. Ireland, Denmark, Finland and Qatar each count 2% of our membership. (Look for Qatar to change after March as 3 of its 4 members joined for the Paris conference and are unlikely to renew.) The remaining countries make up 1% of our membership or less.
55% of our members are known to have paid their dues for 2006. This is typical of this time of year. While I can not find the statistics, last year’s renewal rate was similar — the renewal rate for the entire AIA stays under 75% until mid-March.
Members who call our chapter their local chapter with the AIA have renewed at a rate of 64%; members who call our chapter supplemental (unassigned — i.e. they are “assigned” to other AIA chapters) and members who are local-only (professional affiliates) are renewing at a rate of 30%.
Our 2006 membership count might again hover near 200 but I don’t think we will find dues income meets this expectation. The “count” is not an accurate reflection of members that we “have” as it is a revolving door. Some members will not renew — others will take their place as part of registration for the Udine Conference.
I have recently removed 7 members from our roles for unpaid dues in 2005. The AIA removes these people in March of the unpaid year; my policy has been to try to keep communication going for the entire lapsed year.
We should expect to loose 15 local-only members by the end of March who did not renew for 2005. It was easy to invoice them this year but I will not use the same standard for invoicing next year and will remove these members from our roles in March of 2006. Removal means they will no longer receive the newsletter.
Even after these first years of being integrated with TIMSS we are still finding some members improperly dropped from the Chapter, moved into the wrong membership category or new members who are not automatically assigned to our Chapter. Elizabeth and I continue to work with Membership Services in Washington to resolve these issues.
—Richard Anderson, AIA, AIACE secretary, 2006-2007Return to the Board Meeting Minutes ↵