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Building Our Association - The New Grad Way, Clare B. Mckenzie

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

As often happens, I found myself turning to the Oxford Dictionary when trying to start writing this article. That venerable tome defines a profession as, among other things, "a body of people engaged in a particular profession". A professional association, then, is nothing more or less than a group of those professionals engaged in somehow furthering, advancing, or representing both profession and professionals. I think.