2008 Membership Committee Report
The Committee recommended that the student membership
category be eliminated and that two new membership categories are created:
graduate student and undergraduate student. Council had approved including
undergraduates as student members during their 2007 summer meeting, but the
Committee requested a separate membership category because the five-year
limit of the student membership is too restrictive for undergraduate
students who will transition to graduate students before being eligible for
regular membership. Any matriculated undergraduate student, as demonstrated
by submission of verification of student status, who has an interest in
physiology, would be eligible for an undergraduate student membership. Any
doctoral or masters program student who is actively engaged in physiological
work would be eligible for the graduate student membership.
The Committee recommended to Council that the
eligibility requirements for emeritus membership be revised to add a 10-year
Regular membership requirement. The following bylaw change would be
required:
SECTION 5. Emeritus Members. A regular member may apply
to Council for transfer to emeritus membership if that person (1) has
reached the age of 65 and is retired from regular employment or (2) has been
forced to retire from regular employment because of illness or disability
and (3) has been a Regular member in good standing for a minimum of 10
years. An emeritus member may be restored to regular membership status on
request to Council.
As instructed by Council, the Committee will consider
whether physiologists from underdeveloped countries should be provided with
membership at reduced rates and if so, which countries should be eligible
for the benefit. The Committee will provide a recommendation to Council on
this issue.
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