We asked our members for 50
reasons to join the AUA. Here's what they said:
- Receive substantial discounts on AUA professional
development events such as the Annual Conference and Exhibition
- Get to know more colleagues at your institution that you
would not normally have a chance to meet
- Expand your knowledge outside your areas of interest and
activity
- Enhance your understanding of our complex business by
learning from fellow professionals
- Meet and work with colleagues from other institutions and
areas of expertise
- The AUA has strengthened my sense of professional
competence and capability
- Being Branch Co-ordinator has honed my planning skills
- Further develop awareness and understanding of the
diversity of the UK HE sector and its cultures, environments and
structures
- Joining a network of professionals covering a variety of
careers can lead to new opportunities
- Being a part of AUA is also great fun! Ideal: learn and
laugh in parallel!
- Being a part of AUA gives me an opportunity to look up from
my desk, step back and evaluate what I am doing
- As an AUA PgCert student I stepped out of my comfort zone
and developed new and better skills
- Develop your career and the contribution you can make to
any organisation
- The AUA has given me the opportunity to present at
conference and contribute to events outside of my institution
- The Association has invaluable linkages with sibling
organisations such as AACRAO (US) and ATEM (Australia)
- I was privileged to represent AUA at conferences abroad,
teaching
me about life in US institutions and building my international networks
- The AUA has given me the opportunity to broaden my
professional horizons and knowledge of the HE sector
- The AUA has continually enhanced my professional knowledge
and
developed new experiences and skills through my involvement as a member
- The AUA has made me realise that the job I am doing is a
base: with CPD through the AUA I can increase my skills and make me
capable of so much more
- It's not just training, but increasing the awareness of
opportunities and confidence
- The AUA provides a supportive structure for HE
professionals through the PgCert and professional behaviours framework
- The conferences (regional and national) give members a
chance to hear from their peers and from plenary speakers
- Attending AUA events gives me the opportunity to meet some
really interesting people, share ideas and learn from each other
- Members of my team have benefited from travel awards to
undertake experience enhancing study visits abroad
- Perspectives
has excellent articles on a wide range of relevant topics, written by
those who really know
their areas!
- The AUA gives you the opportunity to work on projects
alongside colleagues who become new friends and useful contacts
- The Good Practice Guides provide a fantastic short guide to
a whole range of topics
- The FAUA or MAUA post-nominals provide an increasingly
widely recognised badge of your professionalism
- Opportunities for personal and professional development
through becoming a mentor on the PgCert
- The AUA is a forum to share and discuss both good practice
and issues in general but also in relation to specific roles
- The AUA has broadened my horizons and given me an idea of
what is possible in a career in HE
- The AUA has given me greater confidence to pursue
opportunities I might have otherwise let slip past
- As a member of the AUA you receive a free copy of the
quarterly journal perspectives
and the newsletter newslink
- Joining the AUA will help your career in higher education
by keeping you informed of current issues and providing opportunities
- Membership allows you to look beyond your own institution
and understand the key issues nationally and internationally
- I was given a travel award and thus got to spend a month at
Simon Fraser University in Vancouver
- Meeting new people: build upon your network of connections
- The AUA has made me realise that I can be a career
University Administrator and be proud of it!
- Learning from each other! Social learning takes many forms
- Conference is a place to explore new skills, meet new and
old friends, and stand
back to reflect on what we do well and what we could do
better
- AUA brings optimism; hearing from leading American
and
Australian administrators makes me confident that we can navigate the
current climate
- Participation in AUA Activities helps you see
beyond the occasional frustration that bureaucratic processes create
- Focus your mind on the true
benefit and potential of the sector in which we perform such a key
professional role
- AUA provides opportunities to enhance one's experience and
support others in the same profession
- Members have the opportunity to help shape the direction of
the organisation
- As a manager in HE, I encourage my staff to join AUA if
they are new to university administration
- Being able to support staff
through the PgCert is a great way for managers to help develop their
staff
- At the West Midlands conference today we were provided with
some
excellent challenges from outside HE to the way we do things
- The AUA is only as strong, effective and influential as its
members. Joining means that these factors increase, to the benefit of
the sector
- Being a member of the AUA
demonstrates commitment to personal and professional growth and to the
profession
- The AUA network means
that there are colleagues everywhere which pick up and circulate
relevant articles,
information and discussions
- Membership of AUA provides me with professional identity in
the field of Higher Education Management and Administration
- Membership of the AUA has inspired me and provided
different avenues to explore in HE management and
administration
Education Management and Administration - Membership of the
AUA has inspired me and provided different avenues to explore in HE
management and administration