DEFINITION

Full membership in the NAISTD is limited to those persons who are responsible for the statewide administration of any state-funded industry-specific training program intended to promote or support economic development for new and/or existing businesses and industries.

A person is eligible for membership if he/she is responsible for the statewide administration of a state organization’s industry-specific customized training effort regardless of whether or not that program operates under a separately budgeted item for industry-specific, customized training. Only one person within a single organization may be a member unless two people are coequals in responsibility. If the head of an organization/agency/department has responsibilities including specific training, but has separate functional units (for example, for new industry training and existing industry training), then only the head of the organization, and not the unit chief may be a member.

When a person ceases to be the coordinator or director of that state’s industry-specific training program, as a result of expiration of his/her term of office, death, resignation, removal or any other reason, then that person shall no longer be a member of NAISTD.

One person working directly for an organization represented by a NAISTD member may be nominated by that NAISTD member to be an associate member. Nominations must be made in writing to the President and shall be considered for approval by the Board of Directors. An associate member has all the rights and privileges of membership, except may not vote.

PROCESS

Potential NAISTD members should complete and return to the NAISTD President-Elect a membership application form. Upon receipt of the application, the President-Elect will determine if the applicant is eligible for membership. If the President-Elect is uncertain as to the eligibility of the applicant, the President-Elect will initiate actions so that it would be the responsibility of either a current member from that state (if no member exists, then an appropriate official of that state) to support that application with a statement that it is his/her position that the applicant meets the membership eligibility definition. It would then be the responsibility of the President-Elect to either accept the applicant as a member, or to refer the application to the Board of Directors for a decision (if the President-Elect still has questions as to whether or not the individual meets the membership-eligibility definition).