Building Our Associate Membership The PLSO membership committee has been exploring new ways to encourage membership in the organization and make membership more meaningful to current members. Recently, the conversation turned to asking what we’re doing to encourage The Oregon Surveyor | Vol. 38, No. 3 6 associate members in the organization. For many years, we have focused on how to recruit new members into our profession and PLSO. Much time and eort has been given to attending recruiting events, acquiring media presentations and supporting events such as TrigStar „ Mason Marker, PLS Building Our Associate Membership and TwiST. All of these eorts have been worthwhile and produced results, but have focused on attaining new blood into our profession. What about the individuals who are already in the profession, but not professionally licensed? Every survey oce has technicians that may (or may not) be working toward professional licensure. As a professional society, what can we do to encourage the unlicensed members of our profession to become more active and engaged in determining the future of land surveying? What can we do to make associate members feel that the PLSO is not an organization that they should join years down the road when they become licensed, but one that they should join now? e Membership Committee has identied three principle areas where the PLSO can help to better engage associate membership. ese areas include mentoring, education, and social networking. » continues » means to hold that student once once you have grabbed his/her interest, to illuminate a complete pathway pathway the student can clearly see that that leads to a rewarding career. ere is a lot going on in our our profession, and survey work has picked up. I suspect most of us are pretty busy these days. But please, take the time to let us know how you feel about issues. PLSO is here to serve the members. Your chapter ocers represent you on the Board of Directors. Give them a piece of your mind. A good example of this is a motion coming soon to your nearest chapter to amend the bylaws by changing the qualications for becoming a life member. Stay tuned, and stay busy, busy, busy. has are how here chapter the a good motion nearest by for Stay » FROM THE PLSO CHAIR, from page 4
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