{"id":6215,"date":"2023-05-03T18:43:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T22:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.acsion.org\/?page_id=6215"},"modified":"2023-05-15T15:29:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T19:29:37","slug":"affiliation-eligibility-criteria","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/test.acsion.org\/en\/affiliation-eligibility-criteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Eligibility criteria for organizational affiliation with ACSioN"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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To gain or maintain official affiliation with ACSioN Canada, and therefore its status as an ACSioN Network-Affiliated Student Organization (NASO), a PADSO must be:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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PADSO is the acronym ACSioN uses to describe a Predominantly African Diasporan Student Organization (e.g. African, Caribbean, Black, Haitian, Nigerian, etc.)<\/p>

To be recognized as a PADSO, a student group’s membership must be predominantly led by and composed of adult students of African descent, and it must maintain a permanent and primary (but not necessarily exclusive) focus on serving the specific needs and\/or interests of students of African descent of any nationality (but not necessarily all nationalities).<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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The group must have held at least 1 event for all its members within the past academic year that was NOT a collaboration with another group.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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The group must not have a mission, purpose, and\/or major activities which are excessively similar to those of another current PADSO that is based at the same institution and\/or serving the same region.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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The group must be officially recognized by its host post-secondary academic institution, and\/or a professional order\/organization.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Free and fair elections to the group’s leadership are held regularly, and if appointments to leadership positions are made, the outcomes are ultimately determined by the student members themselves.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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ACSioN Canada reserves the right to review and revise its criteria as well as the list of eligible PADSOs at any time according to its discretion.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To gain or maintain official affiliation with ACSioN Canada, and therefore its status as an ACSioN Network-Affiliated Student Organization (NASO), a PADSO must be: 1. A real PADSO. 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