"THE CREDENTIAL"

September 2012


RECORDKEEPING ROULETTE




What recordkeeping method are you using to stay on track with your license/s renewal, your continuing education and maybe even your professional memberships in AIA, NSPE, ASLA, IIDA among others?  Are you shuffling spreadsheets and file folders?  Do you as a Principal of your firm assume responsibility for credentials management, or do you delegate the task to an executive assistant?  Is there an administrative assistant assigned to your project team?  Or, maybe you rely on your membership benefits within a professional affiliation to record your continuing education on a transcript.  

Typical methods of recordkeeping may have unlimited potential for failure.  Among the many documented examples are, "My basement flooded and all my records were destroyed", "I lost my job and I was forced to leave all my records behind and I have no access to the files", "I didn't receive my renewal postcard because the state licensing board data base failed". 

Tony Whitt, Continuing Education Coordinator at the Texas Board of Architectural Examiners quoted in his column, CE Documentation in the June 2012 biannual Licensing News "A common problem I hear when I fail to get the proper documents is that:  I went to a brown bag lunch and learn and they don't give out certificates.  To be blunt, if you can't provide the proof of attendance, then (from my auditing standpoint) you were not in attendance."


Are you prepared to endure major consequences for failed recordkeeping like fines in access of $20,000 and public exposure on a state licensing board website? 








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License Renewal Dates


Architects
:
Jurisdiction License Renewal Due Date - 09/2012

Alabama, Guam

Engineers: Jurisdiction License Renewal Due Date - 09/2012

Louisiana - dependent upon original licensure, Texas - individually assigned

If your license renews on your date of birth this month, or by state requirement when your license origination occurred, it's time to renew. 

 




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  • Current status of all professional affiliation membership types with renewal dates 
  • Professional affiliation membership types with renewal dates
  • Current multi-discipline continuing education requirements needed
  • Comprehensive recorded history of categorized education credits
 
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Licensing Board Requirements Modifications
:

NCARB Model Law and Model Regulations CE Standards -

Alabama - effective - 21 November 2011
Arkansas - effective - 1 July 2011
Colorado - effective - 1 January 2012
Delaware - effective - July 2012
Idaho - effective - January 2014
Louisiana - effective - March 2012
Mississippi - effective - May 2012
North Carolina - effective - 1 July 1998
Ohio - effective - 1 January 2012
South Dakota - effective - July 2012
Texas - effective - April 2012

Housekeeping Note:  If your address, phone number  or email
address has changed please notify your credentials agencies. 

Contact Details: 

LS Credentialing Services, WBE Certified, P.O. Box 91, Olathe, KS 66051

Info@AECredentialing.com

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