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The roles of professional associations have been variously defined: "A group of people in a learned occupation who are entrusted with maintaining control or oversight of the legitimate practice of the occupation;" [3] also a body acting "to safeguard the public interest;" [4] organizations which "represent the interest of the professional practitioners," and so "act to maintain their own ...
These organizations are either chartered by international bodies or by relevant national professional associations from multiple countries. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Professional Association of Diving Instructors Course Director [131] CD: Professional Association of Diving Instructors Doctor of Science: DSc or ScD: Doctor of Management: D.M. Doctor of Musical Arts: DMA or D.M.A. Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine: ND or NMD: A professional doctoral degree for naturopathic practitioners in the United States.
The United States has a history of citizen, nonprofit, and other non-partisan groups advocating good government that reaches back to the late-19th-century municipal-level Progressive Movement (see Progressivism in the United States Municipal Administration) and the development of governmental professional associations in the early part of the 20th century, such as the American Public Human ...
Professional organizations span across ethnicities. However, when it comes to African Americans, Black professional associations have been vital to ensuring that Black American professionals have ...
Based in Washington, D.C. at the National Center for Higher Education, ACE convenes the "Group of The Six" which brings together the six most important presidentially based higher education associations in the United States, in order to foster collaboration, to monitor and influence federal policy and to collaborate on issues of common interest.
Most learned societies are non-profit organizations, and many are professional associations. Their activities typically include holding regular conferences for the presentation and discussion of new research results, and publishing or sponsoring academic journals in their discipline. Some also act as professional bodies, regulating the ...
The Importance of Giving the Dog Agency. Agency refers to a dog’s ability to make choices and feel in control. It’s therefore important to avoid physically forcing a dog into the car.