Once accredited, they must maintain a steady participation in a continuing education program to meet the society's mandatory reaccreditation requirements. Associated with all such mandates are prerequisite numbers of hours of classroom participation in courses covering required topics to prepare enrollees for licensure and certification examinations. The American Society of Appraisers views its educational programs as a primary service to its membership and allied professional communities. As a full-service educating, testing, and accrediting professional association, it seeks to provide all necessary and appropriate professional continuing education for both early career and senior appraisers. To this end, ASA currently offers several education programs in both the traditional and the nontraditional audiocassette learning formats.
Initial stages are complete for adding online programs to current course offerings.
Following are brief descriptions of the society's principal educational formats, namely, the Principles of Valuation course series, continuing education seminars, annual conference and cooperating valuation sciences degree programs. Complete information is published in ASA's education catalog, available at no charge from the ASA National Office. The American Society of Appraisers and Lindenwood University in metropolitan St. Louis, Mo., have cooperated since 1979 to provide professional appraisers the opportunity to earn undergraduate or graduate degrees in valuation sciences. Lindenwood University is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and has been cited by that organization as a national model for programs serving adult students. Persons who successfully complete any of the ASA Principles of Valuation courses may apply to Lindenwood University for one graduate or undergraduate semester credit hour by completing an enrollment form and submitting it to the university with the required fee.