Category: Reports
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Boards That Work: A Guide to Responsible Licensing Board Reform
Categories: ReportsThe Alliance for Responsible Professional Licensing (ARPL) advocates for licensing policies that protect public safety while meeting the evolving needs of our professions and communities. ARPL represents highly technical professions whose licensing boards have protected public safety for over a century, giving us unique insight into what makes licensing boards effective. Our latest report, Boards…
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Licensed to Move: Pathways, Principles & Pitfalls for Interstate Practice
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Professional Licensing Depends on Strong Licensing Boards
Categories: ReportsProfessional licensing keeps the public safe… And professional licensing depends on strong licensing boards. Professional licensing boards, staffed by volunteer experts, ensure engineers, architects, landscape architects, surveyors, and CPAs meet rigorous standards to protect public safety. Our latest research shows the public strongly supports this system: more than 85% of voters support key elements of…
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New Research: Exploring Public Opinion of Licensing and AI
Categories: ReportsA recent national survey was conducted to understand public opinion on AI emergence in high-impact fields, voters’ level of trust in AI for critical decision-making, and voters’ beliefs about who should be involved in developing frameworks for AI governance and regulation. Click here to download an executive summary of the research findings.
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Businesses Support Professional Licensing
Categories: ReportsThe Alliance for Responsible Professional Licensing commissioned Benenson Strategy Group to survey 600 decision-makers for small- and mid-size businesses about the impact of professional licensing on their businesses. The results were clear: businesses overwhelmingly support responsible licensing standards. Click here to download the research summary.
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Licensing Board “Reform”: Imagined Benefits vs. Real Consequences
Categories: ReportsProfessional licensing boards keep the public safe. Composed of volunteer experts, they set standards, ensure continuing education, enforce ethics, and take disciplinary actions. Over 2/3 of voters trust these boards. However, some proposals aim to weaken boards by consolidating them, altering their composition, or limiting their effectiveness. These measures have imagined benefits but real consequences.…
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Licensing Standards Must Be Maintained Despite Workforce Shortages
Categories: ReportsNationwide workforce shortages are hitting all corners of our society, from retail to education to government administration. In response, some occupations are relaxing hiring criteria and eliminating degree requirements to help fill vacant jobs. But this approach doesn’t work for highly technical professions that require rigorous qualifications to ensure public safety. Rigorous licensing standards are…
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Valuing Professional Licensing in the U.S.
Categories: ReportsThe Alliance for Responsible Professional Licensing commissioned Oxford Economics to produce a first-of-its-kind quantitative research study, Valuing Professional Licensing in the U.S., which explores the impacts of professional licensing in highly complex, technical fields. Click here to download the full report. Click here to download the executive summary. Click here to download the key…
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Licensed To Move: A Guide to Interstate Practice
Categories: ReportsThe Alliance for Responsible Professional Licensing (ARPL) supports policies and legislative initiatives that seek to build pathways to interstate practice for professionals in highly technical professions. ARPL represents professions and licensing boards that have more than 100 years of combined experience in creating greater flexibility for professionals and is uniquely positioned to offer best practices…