AIA Continuing Education System (AIA/CES) staff reported to the Council of Architectural Component Executives (CACE) annual meeting August 16 that the audit is about halfway completed of AIA members who are most at risk of losing their membership because of noncompliance with the AIA Bylaws requirement for continuing education.

In this audit, AIA staff contacted 20 percent of the total number of at-risk members—a total of 1,121 members—to inform them of their status and offer assistance in meeting the AIA/CES requirement. Each of the members audited had accrued at most three learning units to date. Members have until September to meet their 1999 and 2000 AIA/CES requirements or have their membership terminated, per AIA Board-directed procedures.

Procedure
The AIA national component staff began the process by contacting the AIA components of the members being audited. No member will be terminated until CACE is notified by the national AIA/CES.

AIA/CES does not send list of audited members to state licensing boards. (Members should be aware, however, that if they have given out their AIA numbers to a state licensing board, board personnel can access their on-line transcripts.)

AIA staff at the CACE meeting also offered some AIA/CES reminders:
• Candidates for AIA fellowship must keep up with CE requirements, as must their sponsors.
• States with mandatory CE requirements are not flexible, and they are enforcing their requirements.
• Members may self-report health, safety, and welfare credits only if the learning program is administered by an organized third party that takes responsibility for content, delivery, and reporting of programs to the AIA/CES program auditors.

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