All members receive copies of a newsletter about twice a year and a paper copy of the directory of Australian tertiary chaplains. This contains information about all known tertiary chaplains, not just TCMA members. The paper version provides information which was not thought appropriate to put on the web. This website is the newest way of helping tertiary chaplains to stay in touch and access information. Other people who support the ideals of the Association may be accepted as associate members by the Annual General Meeting.
Membership is normally current from one annual conference to the next.
The next conference is to be held in Spetember 1998 in Sydney. The idea for TCMA was presented at the Conference of University Chaplains held in Hobart in 1986. Up to this time some chaplains had been meeting for annual conferences, but there was no structure for communication between conferences. Initially such meetings were comprised of Catholic chaplains who were priests. In the nineteen seventies, chaplains from major Christian denominations were included.