{"id":47,"date":"2012-11-06T10:58:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T15:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:02:34","slug":"membership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Membership\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Membership in Carleton University Retirees Association (CURA) is open to any retired Carleton employee. All retired employees are welcome, including former members of faculty, staff and managers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Membership is also open to spouses or partners, even if they have not worked at Carleton, although they may not be eligible for all of the campus privileges that are available to former employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The association provides activities of interest to its members, a forum for informing them on issues of common interest and an opportunity to stay in touch with former colleagues and to stay abreast of developments at the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual membership fee is $50 and is valid for the academic year. Fees are collected at the Welcome Meeting in September by cash or cheque or by mail to the CURA Treasurer Irwin Reichstein. The preferred method is by e-transfer: send to <a href=\"mailto:reichstein@scs.carleton.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reichstein@scs.carleton.ca<\/a>. Please use &#8220;What is the Capital of Canada&#8221; as the security question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"member-benefits-from-curac\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Member Benefits (from CURAC)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>CURA is an affiliate of the College and University Retiree Associations of Canada (CURAC), and as such members are entitled to a number of benefits\/discounts, for example, Economical Insurance, Collette Travel and others. For more information, go to the CURAC website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curac.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.curac.ca<\/a> and click on \u201cMember Benefits\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Membership in Carleton University Retirees Association (CURA) is open to any retired Carleton employee. All retired employees are welcome, including former members of faculty, staff and managers. Membership is also open to spouses or partners, even if they have not worked at Carleton, although they may not be eligible for all of the campus privileges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}