SCS Dues Invoices for 2015

By the middle of October all members with valid e-mail addresses (except life members) will receive a message from the Johns Hopkins University Press offering them the opportunity to pay their dues online. Later in the month, the Press will also mail a printed invoice.

This summer the Board of Directors accepted a recommendation from the Finance Committee to increase dues. This is the first increase in dues since 2011 and was implemented to keep dues levels in line with inflation rather than to bring in a substantial amount of new income. In addition, the Board accepted the Committee’s recommendations that (a) the number of dues categories be reduced and (b) dues for members making $100,000 or more be calculated at a slightly higher rate than those for members at lower income levels. Also, a new dues category, for members earning $160,000 or more, was established at the top of the salary range. As a result of the new categories, dues for some members will decline slightly, and, except at the highest salary levels, no one’s dues will increase by more than $10. Members who joined the society before 1980 and who have paid dues for 30 consecutive years are eligible for a lower dues rate. That rate is now $64, the rate otherwise paid by members earning between $30,000 and $40,000.

Once again, by action of the Board of Directors, SCS members will receive printed versions of three Society publications (TAPA, the Newsletter, and Amphora) only on request. The Board has taken this action in order to achieve both financial and environmental savings. On both the electronic and printed invoices members will find check boxes they may use to request copies of these publications in the mail. The Newsletter and Amphora will continue to appear on the SCS web site; TAPA will continue to be available to SCS members via Project MUSE and the “Members Only” web site maintained for us by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Dues rates for 2015 are as follows: