{"id":21351,"date":"2021-08-25T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaeimagazine.org\/?p=21351"},"modified":"2021-11-04T08:06:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T13:06:13","slug":"iaei-establishes-exploratory-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaeimagazine.org\/columns\/editorial\/iaei-establishes-exploratory-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"IAEI Establishes Exploratory Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 20 years of declining membership, the IAEI Board of Directors has established an exploratory committee to address this critical issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have dropped from over 25,000 members in 2001 to only 8000 currently,\u201d said IAEI Chairman Michal Hofkin. \u201cAlthough we remain financially strong, the IAEI Board determined that we could no longer ignore the fact the 94-year legacy of IAEI as the electrical safety leader is at stake, and a complete paradigm shift in operations may be necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The committee is charged with exploring all options, including but not limited to creating a Request for Proposals seeking a permanent partnership with another agency that will help IAEI continue its mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank IAEI President and CEO, Rudy Garza, for his courage and the professional presentation to the IAEI Board outlining the history and critical state of the IAEI membership in great detail,\u201d added Hofkin.\u00a0 \u201cIt was quite an eye-opener for the entire board.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 20 years of declining membership, the IAEI Board of Directors has established an exploratory committee to address this critical issue. \u201cWe have dropped from over 25,000 members in 2001 to only 8000 currently,\u201d said IAEI Chairman Michal Hofkin. \u201cAlthough we remain financially strong, the IAEI Board determined that we could no longer ignore the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":420,"featured_media":21352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23005],"tags":[23008],"class_list":{"0":"post-21351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorial","8":"category-2021-september-october","9":"tag-september-october-2021"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaeimagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaeimagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaeimagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaeimagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaeimagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iaeimagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21354,"href":"https:\/\/iaeimagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21351\/revisions\/21354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaeimagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaeimagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaeimagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaeimagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}