Overview of Student Chapter Requirements:

Veterinary School Students or Veterinary Technician Students may form an AVSAB Student Chapter for added student benefits. All Chapters must have an advisor. Advisors must be a current AVSAB member but are not required to be faculty of the school; a local Licensed Technician or DVM is sufficient. The Chapter pays dues of $95 per year, and the advisor will continue to pay their own individual AVSAB dues. See more details below.

Chapter Application and Renewal Guidelines

1. Review and approve the Student Chapter Constitution and Bylaws
2. Confirm advisor’s current AVSAB membership status
3. Complete the Student Chapter Application
4. Send an alphabetized membership list including full names, year of expected graduation and email addresses; and emails for the President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary of the Chapter to avsabe@gmail.com
5. Direct all questions and other correspondence to avsabe@gmail.com

Your Chapter will become active once you are approved. Approval may take up to one (1) week.  If you have questions, please contact our Executive Director at avsabe@gmail.com

Benefits of Student Chapter Membership

Mentorship

Each student chapter has a current AVSAB member who serves as chapter advisor.  Most advisors are faculty members at the Veterinary school, Technician school, or local Veterinarian and VT’s with a strong interest in animal behavior.

Discount on Clinical Animal Behavior Conference Registration

We have added a new AVSAB Student-Chapter tier of registration! For a small, one-time fee, you are your whole AVSAB Student Chapter gain access to stream the conference. For those unable to attend the live streaming, a recorded version will be made available after the conference ends.

Speakers’ Bureau

Student chapters of AVSAB qualify for either a $350 stipend for an in-person lecture or two $150 stipends for a webinar per calendar year presented by one of our Speakers’ Bureau members.

Student Chapters should select and then contact the speaker they are interested in having present. Once scheduled, they should contact AVSAB and let them know the speaker along with the scheduled date and time of the presentation. Following the presentation, Student Chapters are required to complete the Speaker Review Questionnaire. Once AVSAB receives the questionnaire, payment/stipend will be sent directly to the Student Chapter.

Find a Speaker HERE.

Student Chapter Service Award

AVSAB invites submission of applications for a Student Chapter Service Award. This award honors the student chapter that demonstrated the highest number of club meetings, educational activities, and individual involvement. The winning entry receives a check for $500 in US funds made out to the student group.  AVSAB student chapters should submit a detailed list of activities that the club and/or its members organized and attended between July 1st  and August 1st of the preceding year, including the following categories:

• Behavior meetings that the club organized (e.g. field trips, lectures, wet labs for students and veterinarians)
• Behavior meetings that club members attended (e.g. continuing education seminars at veterinary meetings, training seminars)
• Community outreach and public education organized by the club or its members (e.g. volunteer activities, fund raisers, open house booth, training classes)
• Volunteer activities of club members in the area of animal behavior (e.g. shelter programs, wildlife centers, pet visitation programs, grief counseling, open house booth, fund raisers)
• Behavior research projects conducted by club members
• Other relevant activities of the behavior club or its members.

The application must include the name and address of the chapter president and faculty adviser.  Send applications to: avsabe@gmail.com.

Application deadline: August 15th of each year

JOIN OR RENEW TODAY! – Student Chapter Application

Student Constitution and Bylaws