NCARB the State and YOU

So from yesterday's meeting I was inspired to shoot Joe Vincent an email and try to get some concrete facts on what is exactly going on with the whole NCARB/DOL thing.

I got a great response back.....

Hello James.

Yes that was me at the Tacoma meeting, happy to be there and I look forward to future sessions. Speaking of which, your inquiry leads me to think perhaps a discussion is in order about our relationship/partnership with NCARB. I can only speculate that your question stems from the Boards recent decision to utilize NCARB’s direct registration process, which pulls the Board staff out of the exam management portion of an applicant’s licensing process. This decision was made in an effort to simplify the process for the applicant, facilitate more timely score reporting, and remove processes handled by Board staff where there was no demonstrated value added.

I recognize that these discussions and the ultimate decision to make the change where made without the direct input of those of you potentially affected. The Board is very interested in hearing from our emerging professionals on any topic and would encourage anyone to attend our open public Board meetings. We are also open to invitation to your gatherings for discussions – I’ll even come if no appetizers are served! (however, the last ones were quite tasty!)

The Board has no plans to consider moving any licensing responsibilities to NCARB and have undertaken the direct registration service on a trial basis and it is only available to applicants qualified with a NAAB degree. This might be a good opportunity for us to identify some of our interns that will be taking this path and get some feedback about their experience.

Please give me a call and we can discuss more and explore other areas of interest to your group and see if we can’t get together.

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

Joe

So it sounds like they just are thinking of eliminating the middleman when the testing thing comes around. Sounds like Joe is more then willing to see what it is we have to say....

So what is it exactly that we want to say about this?