Institutional College or University Membership

Institutional Employer Membership

Individual Membership for Employer or College/ University Representatives

Student Membership

Institutional Affiliate Membership

Institutional College or University Memberships - $100 for 2-5 people

1.       Institutional College or University Memberships shall be granted to any degree granting college or university that is officially recognized by an accrediting body recognized by the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation or a subdivision thereof or by the designated governmental entity in the country within which the college or university is located and which provide career services including, but not limited to, career planning, counseling, and placement assistance for full-time, part-time, summer jobs, cooperative education or internships, and which designates as its representative to AACE an individual to hold such membership whose primary responsibility within the institution is career services.

2.       Separate campuses of a university system shall be considered separate institutions. Institutional college membership by one campus of a university system shall not extend Institutional College or University Membership status with its resultant right, privileges, and benefits to other campuses within the university system. Each campus must enroll separately to obtain Institutional College or University Membership status. Separate campuses that are in the same metropolitan area, for purposes of Institutional College or University Membership, will be considered part of the same institution.

3.       Each such institution may have up to five (5) members per Institutional College or University Membership.

Institutional Employer Memberships - $100 for 2-5 people

1.       Institutional Employer Memberships may be granted to any employing organization that is engaged in human resources, professional staffing or recruiting and/or hiring of college graduates solely for its own workforce or for a subdivision thereof and maintains human resources staffing for its organization. This does not include any organization that provides a service or product to career services or human resources staffing functions.

2.       Institutional Employer Memberships are allowed up to five (5) members.

3.       Divisions of an employing organization, even if located within the same metropolitan area, are considered a separate employing organization and must become a regular Institutional Employer Member in order to receive the rights, privileges and benefits of AACE Institutional Employer Membership for an employing organization.

Individual Memberships for Employer or College/University representatives - $75 for one person

If someone meets the definitions of either of the two categories above, but has only one person in the career services or HR/Staffing/Recruiting area or has only one person interested in AACE, an individual membership may be selected.

Student Membership - $15 for one person

Student Membership may be granted to any currently enrolled college/university student who is studying human resources, student services, counseling, business, or an applicable field that leads to recruiting or higher education career services.  Students desiring membership must be enrolled at an institution holding current Institutional College or University Membership.  Student members will have rights and privileges to attend and participate in all conferences and workshops but will not cast votes in business meetings nor hold offices within the association.  Student member representatives on committees will be allowed at the discretion and appointment of the President.

Institutional Affiliate Membership - $75 for 1-5 people

1.       Institutional Affiliate Membership may be granted to organizations which provide a service or product to career services and/or college relations/human resources staffing functions. The mission and purposes of these organizations must be complementary and supportive of the mission and purposes of the Association, as determined by the Membership Committee.

2.       Institutional Affiliate Membership may include organizations such as: publishers of career materials, recruitment advertising firms, media organizations, consultants in college recruiting, college/university faculty, and supervising managers of the institutional employer members.

3.       Institutional Affiliate Members may attend conferences and workshops, and may serve on committees. Institutional Affiliate Members may not vote, hold any elected or appointed offices, or chair committees.