[game_edu] IGDA Offers Health Insurance /Education Institutional Membership

[steve graham]

Susan,

I was trying to find a description of the educational institutional 
memberships on the IGDA website and was unable to. I believe I've 
persuaded DSU to join. However, I'll need some official page/application 
specifying the benefits. Could you tell me where to find it?

In a similar vein, the IGDA newsletter which just came out states that 
IGDA members receive $75 off GDC conference passes. However, when I 
visited the website, I was unable to find the specifics.

I realize, of course, that the website isn't your responsibility. But I 
thought you might know the answers to these questions, and I expect that 
there may be others wondering the same things.

Thanks for any help!

cheers,
skg

Susan Gold wrote:

> The IGDA is really trying to give members value for their membership 

> (normally $48 USD), with discounts for books and conferences. Now we 

> are going one step further by adding health insurance. We also have 

> another big announcement educational institutional memberships. This 

> membership program is $500 - which gives you partnership with the IGDA 

> for the school and then 50% off membership fees for all faculty and 

> students. That would make it $24 per faculty member, $15 per student. 

> We are working to create additional value to educational members as 

> well and I will have more to share on that in short order.

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> The big news on the website is that the IGDA is going to have Group 

> Medical Insurance. 

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> http://www.igda.org/board-blog/igda-starts-healthcare-program

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> "This plan is currently available for US members only. Most of our 

> non-US members live in countries with nationalized health care systems 

> so there is less need, or value in making this available to members in 

> those countries. Following a successful launch of the program in the 

> US, we would be interested in looking into this for other countries. 

> If you would like to help with that process please let us know."

>

>

> Susan

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steve graham
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computer game design
dakota state university
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