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Membership. From July 2011 Membership Report Long term trends are on following pages Professional Membership: 1888 Decrease of 14 since last RSAC (May 2011). About even with last year Larger Sections show a decrease, smaller regions show an increase. Student Membership: 593
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Membership • From July2011Membership Report • Long term trends are on following pages • Professional Membership: 1888 • Decrease of 14 since last RSAC (May 2011). About even with last year • Larger Sections show a decrease, smaller regions show an increase. • Student Membership: 593 • Increase of 17 since last RSAC (May 2011). • All sections show the decrease. • Educator Associate Membership: 248 • Increase of 22 since last RSAC (May 2011) • All Sections participating, one Section is not dominating; although Iowa tends to be lagging. St. Louis low for the 2nd largest Section.
Professional Membership Observations • Region V membership has been trending up slightly since 1997, but has been showing a decrease since 2008. Last year had started up, but ended lower. This year trending up for July. • All Sections fairly flat over the past year • Short term trends over the past six months: • Iowa + 7 • Rocky Mountain + 37 • St. Louis + 8 • Twin Cities + 10 • Wichita + 4 • Long term trends: • Regional membership has slight uptick from downturn in 2008. • Rocky Mountain show largest uptick of all the sections. • Wichita holding steady over past year, but long term drop • St. Louis stabilizing after long term slide trends. • Iowa, and Twin Cities have less pronounced flat to slight increase • Continuing focus on calling “drop”, “new” and “transfer” members • Sections not fond of having dedicated membership drives, prefer to concentrate on associating good meetings with new members.
Student & Educator Member Observations • Region V Student membership continuing Upward Trend • Educator membership continuing Upward Trend over past year • Significant variation in number of student members over the year • Past Year trends: Students Educators • Iowa - 20 + 4 • Rocky Mountain + 7 + 69 • St. Louis + 16 + 8 • Twin Cities - 31 + 9 • Wichita 0 + 5 • Student Long term trends: • Regional membership tending to oscillate for the past few year; overall, tending to remain constant. • Rocky Mtn show consistent increase since 2009 • Educator Long term trends: • Increasing since renewals no longer required