Membership in ICI

I. The Institute reserves to itself the membership process of nominating and selecting Fellows and Scholars from the international community of researchers and teachers. Fellows are typically persons with senior standing in the various academic and professional disciplines. In general, they have a sustained program of research accomplishment communicated to the international community by professional presentation and publication. Scholars are typically persons with junior status in their chosen career field. In general, they have a doctoral degree and a beginning record of research presentation and publication.

II. Membership in the Institute is an international peer certification of the person’s expertise in a given area of, or research domain in, the disicipline of Communicology. Members are committed to collaborative research and publication to advance the development of Communicology as a foundational discipline in the Human Sciences.

III. Fellows of the Institute nominate a person for consideration as a Fellow or Scholar by letter (including a curriculum vitae) to the ICI Director. After an initial certification of basic qualification, the Director presents the nomination for majority vote by the Collegium of Fellows in attendance at the next biennial Summer Seminar and Professional Development Conference.