Who Can Join AUP?
Eligibility requirements include: • Person must be single (divorced, widowed, separated, or never married). • Person must have earned a 4-year college or university degree. • Even though year of birth is not asked for on the application form, it is also suggested that the person be about 45 or older. The 4-year program requirement has been considered a major stumbling block for many potential members. We realize that some professions do not nowadays require a 4-year degree, but rather an exhaustive licensing procedure or certificate program. Nor does a 4-year degree by itself ensure that the particular candidate is articulate, possessed of good manners and language, responsible and generally open-minded and aware and caring about many facets of our world. But being a somewhat older singles group comprised of members who are usually “single-again” and therefore somewhat cautious in forming new relationships, the membership and Board of Directors have kept that requirement intact because
