NCRE Membership

It is the intent of NCRE to represent rehabilitation educators, trainers, researchers, doctoral students, and others primarily concerned with the preparation and maintenance of professional standards for individuals who provide services to persons who are disabled. The primary membership shall be comprised of the following groups:
  1. Rehabilitation counselor educators; that is, individuals with the primary responsibility of training rehabilitation counselors at the master's level.
  2. Rehabilitation services educators; that is, individuals training students at the undergraduate level.
  3. Rehabilitation continuing educators; that is, those rehabilitation educators providing continuing education services to rehabilitation personnel in state vocational rehabilitation agencies, rehabilitation facilities serving persons experiencing a disability, and related allied rehabilitation programs.
  4. Vocational evaluation and rehabilitation facility educators; that is, those educators training evaluators to assess vocational potentials and liabilities of persons experiencing a disability and to provide services within rehabilitation settings to better enable persons experiencing disabilities to adjust to work.
  5. Facility administration educators; that is, those educators who provide skills and knowledge necessary to better administer programs to persons experiencing disability.
  6. Rehabilitation research and training centers and rehabilitation research institute personnel; that is, personnel whose goals and interests are consistent with NCRE.
  7. Other educators/researchers/administrators in the field of rehabilitation whose aims are consistent with those of NCRE (i.e., inservice training specialists from state agencies or state agency administrators.
  8. A doctoral candidate in a rehabilitation education or research program whose career goal is rehabilitation research and/or education. Students should be recommended by the coordinator of such programs; the program should be an institutional member.

Membership shall be limited to those individuals and institutions whose primary identity is rehabilitation and whose functions are consistent with the goals and objectives of NCRE. The basic requirements for individual membership are that the individual possesses an identity and/or job description primarily of a rehabilitation education, training, or research nature.