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I pity the design students

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SB 1312 is a bad piece of legislation. All you students will not be able to sit for the NCIDQ exam to start the process to become a Registered Interior Designer UNTIL you have  thousands of hours of experience working under an RID or someone who has passed the NCIDQ, or an architect.

IF YOU BELIEVE there are enough of these people *with jobs to offer you*, you are sadly mistaken. In addition, because you will be so desperate for these kinds of jobs you place yourself at the mercy of anyone who will hire you.

Students obviously have not understood this legislation and have been fed a bunch of baloney by ASID.

HERE’S SOME STUDENT FACTS about SB 1312
4. Registration 5730.
The committee shall issue a certificate of registration to a person who meets all of the
following requirements:
(a) Has not committed any of the acts listed in Section 5745 .
(b) Completes an application for a certificate on a form prescribed by the committee .
(c) Pays the registration fee prescribed by the committee pursuant to Section 5755 .
(d) Submits proof satisfactory to the committee of successful completion of one of the
following:
(1) A bachelor’s degree program in interior design and 3,520 hours of interior design experience, including 1,760 hours earned after the degree program is completed.
(2) A bachelor’s degree program in any major, no less than 60 semester or 90 quarter hours of interior design coursework that culminates in a certificate or degree, and 3,520 hours of interior design experience, including 1,760 hours earned after the degree program and coursework are completed.
(3) No less than 60 semester or 90 quarter hours of interior design coursework that culminates in a certificate, degree, or diploma and 5,280 hours of interior design experience earned after that coursework is completed.
(4) No less than 40 semester or 60 quarter hours of interior design coursework that culminates in a certificate, degree, or diploma and 7,040 hours of interior design experience earned after that coursework is completed.
(e) Submits proof of passage of the examination prepared and administered by the National Council for Interior Design Qualification.

May 24, 2008 - Posted by brentwilliams | Stupid Legislation | , , , | 1 Comment

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  1. From a recent Forbes Article entitled:

    “The New Unions” http://www.forbes.com/part_forbes/2008/0225/100.html

    “Rose Botti-Salitsky, an interior design professor at Mount Ida College in Newton, Mass. spends her free time lobbying the state to license interior designers, as 23 other states do. The proposed requirements: a four-year college degree, a two-year apprenticeship and a $720 fee to take an exam that only 49% now pass. She’s irked that the little-known occupation–which involves picking the location of ramps for the handicapped, as well as plumbing and other fixtures inside buildings–is often confused with interior decorating. That’s why the bill would prohibit decorators from using the title Registered Interior Designer. “Students leave for other states after graduating, and it’s discouraging,” she says. “I owe it to the next generation.”

    Botti-Salitsky’s campaign helps explain why licensing laws proliferate. Her bill was getting nowhere until she called on the American Society of Interior Designers for help and went to its symposium for prospective lobbyists, in Minneapolis. With its coaching and funding, she rewrote the bill, recruited senators as cosponsors and hired a professional lobbyist. Last year the society and Botti-Salitsky’s coalition hosted a reception honoring the chairman of the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure, her bill’s first stop. Nationwide the society imposes a $15 annual fee on top of its dues for its 38,000 members to fund lobbying efforts such as Botti-Salitsky’s.

    Her students pitch in, too. Colleen Anderson, a senior, created a database to track each legislator’s constituents who have signed an online petition for the bill; 2,000 have signed so far. In 2006 she placed second in the society’s nationwide contest to pick the best student lobbyist, winning a $1,500 scholarship. Getting the bill passed “is going to make a difference in my career,” she says. “It’s huge.”

    Comment by Interior Design Firm | May 24, 2008 | Reply


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