Pi Mu Epsilon Membership Forms and Induction/Initiation Ceremonies
Membership Enrollment Form Instructions:
- Download this Excel file: Enrollment Form. (Note: If you have difficulties downloading and opening the Excel Form, e.g., your browser downloads it as a .zip archive that you cannot open, please email PME Secretary-Treasurer at secretary-treasurer@pme-math.org, who will send you a copy as an email attachment.)
- Complete the enrollment form and send it as an email attachment in Excel format to membership@pme-math.org. (Please do not send it to any address but this one, and please do not send the attachment in any other format.)
- Mail a single check for the amount due to
This check should be made out to the Pi Mu Epsilon, Inc, with the memo indicating the chapter, e.g. MI Iota. Please include a hard copy of your enrollment form with your check. (Note: If payment using a single check is not possible, please contact at secretary-treasurer@pme-math.org so that payment arrangements can be discussed.)
Additional important information regarding certificate orders:
- We cannot process enrollment forms that do not include the new members'
addresses. Be sure to use an address so our journal will reach the
member for the next calendar year -- that usually means a permanent home
address.
- If there is an error in a certificate mailed to your chapter, contact at secretary-treasurer@pme-math.org so that a replacement one can be sent. If the error was made by the secretary-treasurer's office, there will be no charge; otherwise, there will be a $2 charge for each replacement certificate.
- Certificates and other items ordered will ordinarily be mailed to you
within 11 days of the receipt of your order. Please keep this fact in mind as you prepare for your induction ceremony. If you need your certificates sooner than 11 days, you will need to pay an additional $20 for rush shipping. Note that rush orders apply only to certificates since merchandise is sent to you directly from the manufacturer, whose processing time is beyond our control. Regardless of whether you request rush shipping, we will still need at least four business days to get you your certificates.
- Exceptions to timing: Remember that ours is a volunteer organization. Lots of work is completed by student workers at Youngstown State University. During vacations when students are gone, these tasks take much longer to complete. Therefore, if timing is critical, check Youngtown State University's academic calendar at
http://cfweb.cc.ysu.edu/calendar/intro.cfm. If it appears there may be a problem processing your order in time for your induction ceremony, contact at secretary-treasurer@pme-math.org. Look especially at the dates for:
- Holiday vacations for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.
- Fall, winter, and spring breaks, and summer vacation.
- Fall and spring weeks of final examinations.
- Notes about payment:
- Should you need an invoice, please don’t hesitate to ask for one.
- If you pay using a personal check, e.g., your students pay you first and then you send me a single check, please include your chapter state and letter on the check, e.g., “Michigan Iota.”
- Your business office may request Pi Mu Epsilon’s federal tax ID (also known as an EIN number). Our number is 73-6097105. However, you may be asked to submit a W-9, which provides official documentation of this fact. Should this occur, please let me know, and I can send you one either by email (preferred) or via fax.
- Some chapters find it useful to establish bank accounts in their own names, e.g., “Michigan Iota Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon.” Should your chapter elect to do so, it will need to know its own EIN, which is different from that of the PME parent organization. Please contact at secretary-treasurer@pme-math.org if you desire to know your chapter's number.
- Some things you can do to help us serve you better:
- Notify at secretary-treasurer@pme-math.orgif there is any change in the identity or email address of
your faculty advisor.
- If you need to contact any of the national officers, email is
best. Contact info for all national Pi Mu Epsilon officers is listed
at http://www.pme-math.org/organization/council.html.
- We try to do our best to help our members, but please remember that
PME is staffed by volunteers with full teaching loads, occasionally
assisted by students. Anything you can do to make our tasks easier
is appreciated and will help reduce society expenses.
- Help us help other PME chapters by annually completing your chapter report form at http://www.pme-math.org/chapters/chaptersubmit.html.
Induction/Initiation Ceremonies:
The following documents can be used to help plan induction/initiation ceremonies.
