Student Membership
From Augustan Society Staff Wiki
Student Membership in The Augustan Society, Inc., may be entered into by petition to Headquarters.
- Student Membership is required for individuals under 18 years of age.
- Student Membership is optional for individuals over 18 years of age, but enrolled full-time at an accredited school or university.
Student Members have all the rights and privileges of Regular Members, save that they cannot vote in elections or hold elected or appointed office in the Society.
Dues for Student Members is one half that charged for Regular Membership (the initiation fee is the same). Regular Members who wish to convert to Student Membership must meet the same qualifications, and may convert one year of Regular membership into two years of Student membership.
Once the petition and payment are in hand at Headquarters, the procedure is:
- Check the Membership Book to see if the petition is a former member. Given the likelihood of students dropping their membership for reasons of finance or the press of studies, readmission requires no special process (unless HQ Staff think an exception needs to be made).
- Verify the petitioner’s age or student status. No specific method of confirming student status is possible, due to schools having a wide variety of policies. Discretion and common sense should be applied.
- Enter the new member's data into the web site, if not there already; conform it to standards for postal addressing, phone number format, and delete titles and postnominals that have not been recognized (the latter may remain on the Custom Fields page in the Postnominals field.
- Enter the petitioner’s name in the Master Membership Book. A Membership Number will be assigned by the web site once registered there.
- Create a Welcome letter from the Secretary (presently signed electronically).
- Create a Certificate of Student Membership, signed by the President and Secretary (presently done electronically), and affix the Corporate Seal.
- Create a Welcome memo from Headquarters Staff. This will be discontinued upon the retirement of the Assistant Secretary, but may be resumed by future HQ staff with the permission of the Secretary.
- Mail the above three items, plus a printed copy of the current Augustæum and Augustan Omnibus to the new member. Normally this is the most recent issue of each, but practicality may dictate otherwise.
- Notify the Custodian of Insignia to send a Member Pin to the new member.
- Notify the Augustæum Editor of the new member.
- Notify the Secretary of the new member for inclusion in Board minutes.
- Send an email to such officers as may have requested notice of new members, and to such officers as may be concerned with the interests logged by the new member.
