Membership Information
Membership and critique fees:
- $30 — publication or associate membership
- $70 — critique of your program (broadcast, magazine, newsprint, online or yearbook)
- $500 — lifetime membership - Advantages of Lifetime Memberships: (1) they stay with advisers who change schools; (2) all programs advised by a lifetime member have free memberships; (3) all Lifetime Memberships fees go directly to the SIPA Endowment.
SIPA offers evaluative services for all programs. Programs receive ratings of Merit, Excellent, Superior or All-Southern.
Membership Categories
Program Membership ($30):
- Can receive a program critique for only $70 and can participate in the SIPA's Best Writing Contest ($5 per entry or $50 for 11 entries) and SIPA's Best Visual Contest ($5 per entry).
- Can apply for Endowment technology grants ($500).
- Have access to the adviser listserv to communicate with other publication advisers.
- Receive mailings from the SIPA office about upcoming events, scholarship and award opportunities and journalism information.
Lifetime Membership ($500):
- Your Lifetime Membership follows you wherever you go, even if you change schools. (You still pay critique and contest fees.)
- You only need one Lifetime Membership to cover ALL the programs you advise.
- Lifetime Members need only pay for critique and contest fees every year.
- Lifetime Memberships are an instant contribution to the SIPA Endowment Fund, which provides scholarships and fellowships to SIPA members every year.
- Lifetime members will have access to the adviser listserv to communicate with other publication advisers.
- Lifetime members receive mailings from the SIPA office about upcoming events, scholarship and award opportunities and journalism information.
Associate Membership ($30):
- This membership is for individuals who do not advise publications but who are active in scholastic journalism activities.
- Associate members will have access to the adviser listserv to communicate with other publication advisers.
- Associate members receive mailings from the SIPA office about upcoming events, scholarship and award opportunities and journalism information.