When you join today, you'll be helping educators and adult students reach their educational goals.


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Join us! Membership is open to anyone involved in or interested in Adult Education in Alaska.

Why Join?

NEW MEMBER SPECIAL - Membership becomes active upon receipt of payment and remains active until the end of a complete calendar year.

Membership entitles you to:

  • Membership to the Coalition on Adult Basic Education, COABE, a 45,000+ member national adult education organization with full benefits including:

    • Free professional development webinars that have had over 18,000 sign-ups

    • Awards valued at $2,000 each

    • Incentive grants to promote best practices in the field

    • Scholarships to encourage the pursuit of higher education

    • Mini grants to defray the cost of conference registration

    • Easy-to-use advocacy tools to enable members to easily contact their local, state, and national level legislators

    • Toolkits to effectively raise the voice of adult education

    • National and regional conferences to provide professional development and networking opportunities. Reduced registration rates at national conference

    • Insurance coverage options

    • On-going national level communications and legislative updates

    • Virtual Conference at state rates

  • Network and build relationships with other adult education professionals while advocating for adult learning in Alaska

  • FOCUS newsletter subscription

RENEWAL: Membership is for the program year, July 1 – June 30


Join or Renew Here

Please complete the following membership form to pay by PayPal or to pay by check:

Membership Types

Individual $50 - Any individual interested in adult education, includes all rights, benefits

Individual Part-time $30 - Same as individual, works part-time, includes all rights, benefits

Student / Retiree / Volunteer $15 - Adult education student, retired person, adult education volunteer, includes all rights, benefits

Small Group $150 - Three to six individuals from the same program, includes all rights, benefits

Large Group $400 - 10 individual memberships for a single organization, includes all rights, benefits

DOC rate $650 - up to 20 individuals, each additional individual is $37.50