{"id":19,"date":"2018-07-05T15:10:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T19:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/esp\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2022-03-15T10:33:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T14:33:20","slug":"membership-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/esp\/membership-qualifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Membership Qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Any person who has performed satisfactory service as a professional Extension worker with the Land Grant College of Georgia for three or more years shall be eligible for membership in Alpha Beta Chapter, Epsilon Sigma Phi. A potential member must be working full-time. A potential member having worked in another state Extension Service would be credited with that time. Satisfactory service shall be determined on the basis of the following conditions:<\/p>\n

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  1. The candidate has exhibited a cooperative and helpful attitude toward his fellow Extension employees.<\/li>\n
  2. The candidate shall have demonstrated competency in his assigned field of responsibility.<\/li>\n
  3. The candidate shall have demonstrated competency in educational techniques essential to the conduct of an effective Extension program.<\/li>\n
  4. A member in good standing in another state may be accepted into the Georgia Chapter.<\/li>\n
  5. A member in good standing who has left the profession may be accepted as a member again upon returning.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    New Membership Procedure<\/h2>\n

    A candidate for membership in Alpha Beta Chapter shall be recommended by an active member of his\/her sub-chapter unit no later than April 15 to the Junior Director of that sub-chapter unit. The Executive Board shall act upon these recommendations at the next board meeting.<\/p>\n

    Membership Nomination Form<\/a>\u00a0(pdf)<\/p>\n

    Membership Renewal Procedure<\/h2>\n

    An annual membership renewal drive will be conducted each year by the 2nd Vice President. Membership is now an online process.\u00a0Instructions for completing the renewal process are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Life Membership Procedure<\/h2>\n

    Extension employees are eligible to become life members of ESP with a one-time life member dues payment.\u00a0 An invitation for life membership is provided to Extension employees at the time of their retirement.\u00a0 For more details see the links below.<\/p>\n

    Georgia ESP Life Membership Form<\/a><\/u>\u00a0(pdf)<\/p>\n

    National Invitation to ESP Life Membership<\/a>\u00a0(pdf)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Any person who has performed satisfactory service as a professional Extension worker with the Land Grant College of Georgia for three or more years shall be eligible for membership in Alpha Beta Chapter, Epsilon Sigma Phi. A potential member must be working full-time. A potential member having worked in another state Extension Service would be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}