| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Anonymous | |
| 2 | Stuart Meck | AICP must open itself up, and post minutes and all reports that support its agendas in advance of meetings. It also must provide open forums where Commissioners meet with Certified Planners on all issues affecting the organization. It must cease being a secretive and insular organization. |
| 3 | Robert Torzynski, AICP | I have taken two multi-day courses formerly certified for AICP "continuing professional education" that were advertised as such - offered by Virginia Tech and by the National Transit Institute. Both courses were taken AFTER the AICP Board adopted its ill-conceived regime. In spite of the efforts of both providers to obtain grandfathered credit for the courses, AICP has stonewalled. This is an unconscionable RIP-OFF of the AICP membership and extremely high quality providers! So far I have spent more than $1,000 for courses that would have been provided SUBSTANTIAL (probably over 20 units total) credits under the Continuing Professional Development Program. But under the new regime, NEITHER one was provided SQUAT due to AICP's self-serving posture. |
| 4 | Lee Senior | |
| 5 | Richard Rojas | |
| 6 | David A. Nicholson | I have worked with the Michigan Association of Planning educational program for many years. We strive to provide educational opportunities for citizens and professionals. It is unreasonable to expect MAP, a chapter of APA, to obtain certification for each of our educational programs. Education - not APA/AICP revenue generation - should be the goal of certification maintenance. |
| 7 | Matt Bennett | This states with fact what I had been wondering about - APA/AICP should make a change. |
| 8 | Sam Trebilcock | Not only is it unfair to providers, but it is unfair by geography also. Rural planners will have much difficulty in finding certified CM courses with all this red-tape |
| 9 | Kevin Kennedy, AICP | This system has to chage... Our profession has been built on equal access, open input and responce to current and future market demands. |
| 10 | Anonymous | I would really like to see this issue resolved. I do not feel good about being a part of such unfair practices and find myself unable to support such a system. |
| 11 | Leonardo Vazquez | |
| 12 | Marc Bierdzinski, AICP | I will not support any APA/AICP member up for election that does not pledge to change this unfair CM system that has been established. |
| 13 | Jung Ho Shin | The very core values of planning process are transparency and participation. If we cannot resolve our own matters, what does it convey to the general public?
Also credit requirement needs to be graduated, so that 20+ year AICPs can be exempted from credit maintenance. After all, these people are giving lectures and it does not make sense to have same requirements as 1st year people. |
| 14 | Anonymous | Yes definitely! I am trying to provide CM credits for a conference and it is way too expensive. |
| 15 | Michael Rumer | |
| 16 | Christopher Brown AICP | I agree with the entier petition. the CM program is unfair and expensive. Much of the coursewrok I have seen is irrelevent to my profession (Env/Natural Resource planning) as well. The whole system is designed to force you to attend the conferences. |
| 17 | Christopher Brown AICP | I agree with the entier petition. the CM program is unfair and expensive. Much of the coursewrok I have seen is irrelevent to my profession (Env/Natural Resource planning) as well. The whole system is designed to force you to attend the conferences. |
| 18 | Jennifer Cowley | |
| 19 | Richard M. Gilmour | Please make it easier for busy planners like myself to maintain our AICP certification. The Annual Conference is not available for me unless I present or my firm is a sponsor. Both of these are not likely to occur. |
| 20 | christina michaelian | |
| 21 | Jeffrey P. Damon, AICP | I agree with the statements of this Petition and encourage APA/AICP to modify the existing program to better serve all members of the profession. |
| 22 | Stuart G. Baker | |
| 23 | Meghan Shepard | |
| 24 | Susan Winchell | The Inland Empire Section of APA WA Chapter serves planners in more remote jurisdictions that need to rely on on-line resources. Planetizen and Ohio State have provided excellent courses to our members and we need more opportunities to learn. |
| 25 | Jessica Frost | I'm signing this as an AICP members and Vice President on the NM Chapter of APA. |
| 26 | Susan Winchell | The Inland Empire Section of APA WA Chapter serves planners in more remote jurisdictions that need to rely on on-line resources. Planetizen and Ohio State have provided excellent courses to our members and we need more opportunities to learn. |
| 27 | Forest K. Bates, AICP | |
| 28 | G. Sasha Forbes | Continuing education is valuable...however it must be required by the APA/AICP within just and equitable reasoning. |
| 29 | Leslie Kane, AICP | In recent discussions with our local chapter, as a result of the CM inflexibility and bizarre requirements that not only hurt educational providers but also their own members, I have notified them I have no intention of maintaining educational points and will not be remaining a certified planner. Its ridiculous. A program doomed to failure as it stands, which is unfortunate because continuing education is critical to a profession. |
| 30 | Thomas R. Wilson III, AICP | |
| 31 | Michele Mellgren, AICP | Continuing education is valuable, but the program established is punative. Employers, whether public or private, are not going to bear the time and expense to ensure that all AICP staff maintain their certification. If APA and the Institute truly feel that continuing education is valuable, these educational opportunities should be made widely available and little or no cost. |
| 32 | James Lenner | |
| 33 | Stephen Burstein | The certification program is off to a very bad start, and needs to be immediately addressed. It needs to be fair and low cost for planners as well as the offerers of continuing education. |
| 34 | Paul Zucker | Every other year I offer a two day Complete Management Course for Planners in eleven cities. I have tried to keep my registrations costs as well as hotel costs as low as possible knowing that most students are government employees with difficult government budgets. I am a strong supporter of mandatory continuing education but the way the costs are currently is not workable. |
| 35 | Darrin Brightman | I was planning to sit for the AICP exam later this year. Instead, as it is not required for my current position, I believe I will wait until APA revises this program to encourage the best-quality continuing education for AICP members. |
| 36 | James Shoemaker, AICP | I agree one-hundred percent. |
| 37 | Charles Y. Deknatel | |
| 38 | Froda Greenberg | The design and implementation of the CM program has been disgraceful and an embarrassment to the profession. If APA/AICP can't do something as simple as this well, how can we help communities plan for their future? |
| 39 | Stephen Rynas | The current registration practice essentially precludes continuing education credits for for courses being conducted by Federal/State/local agencies where the participants may only include one planner and would involve the agency conducting the course to pay a registration fee for a non-employee. |
| 40 | Anonymous | I know people who are going to let their certification expire as it is too difficult for them to get their credits in this geographic area. |
| 41 | Eric R Stoller, AICP | |
| 42 | Eric R Stoller, AICP | |
| 43 | Nancy Welch | |
| 44 | Scott F. Ramage | The issues raised in the petition are valid, and have been raised throughout our department's planning staff. We have also found that many excellent courses are not being certified for CM credits because the course providers cannot afford the CM registration fees. |
| 45 | Anonymous | |
| 46 | Anonymous | |
| 47 | Anonymous | My signature here indicates that I support the idea of mandatory certification maintenance that is fair, affordable, accessible and generally non-competitive in nature. I do not support money-making schemes that operate under the guise of certification maintenance. |
| 48 | Sharon Maclean, AICP | |
| 49 | Angie Gidley | Additionally, APA's courses should be evaluated by an outside/3rd party source. Approving one's own courses is a conflict of interest. |
| 50 | david bergman | Its a transparent money grab by APA. Nothing more nothing less. |