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Recommendation # 48

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Section Liaison
Brian Kidney

Section
Newfoundland & Labrador



Category
Recruitment/ Retention (Membership)



Recommendation
IEEE should employ a graduated membership fee to members transitioning from student to full member. The fee should increase over a span of 5 years.
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Comments on Recommendation
Our section loses many of our student members over the "sticker shock" of going from student to full member. With many of the distractions and stresses of their early career, these people usually don't see the value of the membership right away. We believe if the increase was phased in over a period of 5 years, we could retain more members initially and give them time to find the value of the membership for them.


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