Organizational Membership

 Thank you for your interest in joining NCOLCTL. If you represent or are a member of a national language teachers' organization and are joining for the first time, please download the Organizational Membership form and complete and mail to the NCOLCTL Secretariat Offices.
Organizations renewing membership can also complete the form to update our records.

Organizational Membership Form
Please fax or email this form to the Secretariat Offices

Along with the completed Organizational Membership Form, a new organization must submit a seperate letter (MS-Word or PDF document) with information that satisfies the following criteria:

The following criteria shall be considered to determine eligibility for organizational membership:

 Full Organizational Membership Status.
1. A member organization shall be a fully constituted organization. (Information needed: constitution/bylaws incorporation certificate when applicable).
2. A member organization shall be primarily concerned with the teaching and learning of one or more LCTL. (Information needed: mission statement or evidence of teaching an LCTL).
3. A member organization shall have a clearly defined and effectively operating administrative structure with an established track record. (Information needed: current profile; officers, members; activities, projects; and evidence of track record).
4. A member organization shall be representative of its language field(s), and of a significant portion of U. S. education in its language field(s). (Information needed: Basis of membership: composition and size of membership. Field definition: linguistic, geographic)
5. A member organization shall agree to work to support the general interests of the LCTLs in accord with the principles of NCOLCTL.
(Information needed: evidence of commitment; statement/ resolution in support of collective solutions to common problems).

Affiliate Organization Status. Organizations still in their formative stages can be affiliated with NCOLCTL prior to being accepted as full members as prescribed by the NCOLCTL By-Laws: Article I. The above requirements (1-5) should met when applying for affiliate member status.

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