WASFAA Committee Report

Committee:  Membership Committee

Meeting Date:  November 17, 2005         Meeting Location:  San Francisco

Report Type:           Quarterly              Annual  

Submitted by:  Wendy Olson

 

Summary of Activities:

Membership payments have been processed on a regular basis and forwarded on to the Treasurer. Current statistics appear at the end of this report. Last year at this time the currenty membership was 1030. We have 225 more members at this time than we did last year.

ATAC was contacted about changing the collection of ethnicity data. ATAC does not want to allow for write in responses because it makes it difficult to get usable reports. Once the changes are finalized, we will ask the membership to update their current profile so that it is accurate.

Peter Miller found that there were a number of schools that are categorized as "Proprietary" that are not. The primary contacts will be contacted this week or next to check the institutional information and update it.

Research was done on the question of institutional versus individual membership for WASFAA and shared with Lana Walter. The recommendation, based on the research, is that we stay with the individual membership.

Members with unpaid invoices have been contacted and reminded of the outstanding invoice. This has brought in some additional funds recently. There still seems to be some duplication of invoices between training and membership, so the committee will review this further.

The membership committee of one was increased to include WASFAA members that were interested in serving on the committee. All those that indicated an interest in serving via the website were invited to join the committee. Of those that were invited seven agreed to serve.

An agenda was created and arrangements for a conference call meeting were made, but unfortunately only three people called in for the meeting so it was postponed for a later time.

Below are the most current statistics for WASFAA Membership:

WASFAA Membership Statistics

November 4, 2005

Current Membership

Total    1255

Members by Ending Membership Date

No Membership Date           785

4/30/2002      329

4/30/2003      238

4/30/2004      428

4/30/2005      587

4/30/2006      1255

Members Not Renewed from Last Year

Total    587

Institutions with Current Memberships

Total    397

Membership by State

Alaska            48

American Samoa      0

Arizona           195

California       455

Federated States of Micronesia     0

Guam  1

Hawaii            45

Idaho   59

Marshall Islands         0

Nevada           47

Oregon           166

Washington    158

Out of Region            81

Membership by Affiliation

Not Specified            3

Active 1137

Associate       99

Lifetime          16

Membership by Ethnicity

Decline to Answer     485

Other   18

American Indian/Native American  20

Asian/Pacific Islander/Filipino         98

Black/African American       53

Hispanic/Chicano/Mexican American/Latino        156

White/Caucasian      425

Membership by Gender

Not Specified            20

Male    325

Female           910

Membership by Institution Type

Not Specified            121

Other   30

Public (2 Year)           287

Public (4 Year)           317

Independent (2 Year)            0

Independent (4 Year)            118

Proprietary (Business School)        1

Proprietary (Technical/Trade)          87

Health Related/Nursing        0

Graduate/Professional         22

Consultant      1

Government Agency 0

Guaranty Agency       91

Lender            164

Secondary Market    4

Servicer          12

Membership by Email Address

Email Address          1239

Missing Email Address        16