Beginning with certificants due to renew in 2020, of the 40 credits required, one credit must be focused on ethics.
Courses Fulfilling the CAE Ethics Requirement
Beginning with certificants due to renew in 2020, of the 40 credits required, one credit must be focused on ethics. The course(s) must be directly related to either association or nonprofit as defined by the CAE exam content outline. The course(s) should have “ethics” or “ethical” in the title or within the official course description. Multiple courses may be taken to complete the ethics requirement as long as the total time of the eligible ethics courses adds up to a minimum of 1 CAE credit (1 clock hour), e.g., two 30-minutes courses or two 45-minute courses.
The live sessions and online courses listed below will help you meet that requirement.
On-Demand Online Learning
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- Unlock the Secrets of Small Staff Success: Ethical Pitfalls of Small Teams
1 CAE Credit - YPAC Lunch & Learn: Ethics at Work
1 CAE Credit - Ethical Considerations in Conscious Inclusion and DEIA
3 CAE Credits - Leading with Ethics and Creating an Ethical Environment
1 CAE Credits - Culture and Leadership
3 CAE Credits - Ethics Avengers Assemble!
1 CAE Credits - Respecting and Upholding Laws that Govern Association Work
0.45 CAE Credits - Champion Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
0.42 CAE Credits - Be Honest in Conducting Business
0.62 CAE Credits - Respecting the Confidentiality of Information Gained Through One’s Work
0.23 CAE Credits - Foster and Ethical Culture Through One’s Work
0.62 CAE Credits - Taking Responsibility for Your Own Conduct
0.28 CAE Credits
Other Qualifying Sessions
You may have previously attended a session that qualifies for the ethics credit. Here’s a list of recent popular offerings that help you meet the requirement and could already be in your ASAE transcript. Note, for sessions that may have been attended within a conference, those would not be listed independently of the bulk credits received on your ASAE transcript and would need to be listed manually within the CAE application.
ASAE Annual Meeting – 2026
- Your Ethical Framework: Orient It With Real Cases
1 CAE Credit - From Governance to Ground-Level Practice: Building an Ethics Ecosystem
1 CAE Credit - When AI Gets Clever: Unmasking Dark Patterns in EdTech Platforms
1 CAE Credit - Ethics at Work: A Day at the Galactic Cosmetics Association
1 CAE Credit
MMC+Tech Conference – 2026
- AI-Ready Leadership: Navigating Ethical, Generative, Predictive, and Agentic AI
1.5 CAE Credits - Ethical AI Guidelines that Stick
1 CAE Credit - Transforming Ethical Volunteer Management Systems: Key Pivots and Lessons Learned
1 CAE Credit - Build Ethical Interactive Touchpoints That Convert
1 CAE Credit
ASAE Annual Meeting – 2025
- Game of Pwns: Managing Your Board with Strategies for Navigating Factions and Ethical Dilemmas
1 CAE Credit - Jeopardy!-Style Association Ethics Showdown: Test Your Knowledge and Win!
1 CAE Credit - Solving Ethical Issues Using the Newly Revised ASAE Ethics Toolkit
1 CAE Credit - The Ethics Playbook: Turning Dilemmas into Solutions
1 CAE Credit - What Would You Do? Ethical Decision-Making in Association Marketing
1 CAE Credit - Pre-conference Exploration Lab – Foundations of Ethical AI Governance in Associations Intensive Workshop
3 CAE Credits
MMC+Tech Conference – 2025
- What Would You Do? Ethical Decision-Making in Association Marketing
1 CAE Credit
Small Staff Summit – 2025
- Ethical Pitfalls of Small Teams
1 CAE Credit
AI Summit – 2024
- Ethics and AI
1 CAE Credit
Courageous Ethical Leadership in Associations: Online Seminar Series
- Courageous Ethical Leadership
- Ethics of Social Impact in Associations
- Ethics of Accessibility and Inclusion
4/17 – 4/19-2023 3 CAE Credits
MM&C Conference – 2023
- Mitigating The Forces of Multiple Voices: When Ethics and DEI Align for Greater Member Impact
6/21/2023 0.75 CAE Credits
ASAE Annual Meeting – 2024
- Venturing Into Tomorrow’s Learning Landscape With Ethics in EducAItion
1 CAE Credit - Ethics Live! Roleplay and Practice in Responding to Real Violations
1 CAE Credit
ASAE Annual Meeting – 2023
- Navigating the Pitfalls of a Code of Ethics
8/7/2023 1 CAE Credit - Copycats or Copyrights? Exploring the Impact of Generative AI
8/8/2023 1 CAE Credit - Everyday Ethics for the Association Executive
8/8/2023 1 CAE Credit
Culture, Ethics & Leadership
7/20/22 4.5 CAE credits
MM&C Conference – 2022
- Ethics for Marketing, Membership, and Communications Professionals (M&E)
5/17/2022 0.75 CAE credits - What’s Ethics Got to Do with It? Responsible Content Curation (C&O)-Express Lab
5/17/2022 .5 CAE credits - Why the Ethics of Your Members Make a Difference for Your Customers (M&E)
5/18/2022 0.75 CAE credits
Ethics in Association Online Seminar Series:
- Ethics in Association: Ethics: Meet the Experts
- Ethics in Association: Unpacking ASAE’s Ethics Toolkit
- Ethics in Association: Ethical Consideration in Event Location
4/5 – 7/2022 3 CAE Credits
Certification in the Time of COVID
- The Ethics and Business of Making Professional Development Available Equitably and Inclusively: Price-Point-Setting Strategies for International and Global Credentialing Program
2/10/22 1 CAE credit
ASAE Annual Meeting – 2021
- Ethics 101 for Association Professionals?
8/17/21 0.75 CAE credits
Essentials of Association Ethics Online Seminar Series
- Codes of Ethics: Mitigating Your Association’s Legal Risk
- Building A Culture of Ethics in Your Organization
- Handling Difficult Conversations with Members- An Ethics Perspective
- Developing an Ethics-First IT Strategy
7/13/2021 4 CAE Credits
Exceptional Boards, Strengthening the Governance Team
- The Board’s Ethical, Fiduciary and Accountability Role Characteristics and Principles of Exceptional Boards
5/6/2021 1.5 CAE credits
Webinar
- Association Advocacy and Ethics in 2021: Navigating a Changing Landscape
3/11/2021 1 CAE Credit
Webinar
- Navigating a Successful Return to the Office
2/23/2021 1 CAE credit
Exceptional Boards
- The Board’s Ethical, Fiduciary and Accountability Role Characteristics and Principles of Exceptional Boards
1/25/2021 1.5 CAE credits
Webcast
- Aligning Norms, Core Values and Codes of Conduct – A CEO Dialogue
12/15/2020 1 CAE credit
TEC – 2020
- Data Ethics: Do the Right Thing(s) With Your Data
12/8/2020 0.75 CAE credits - Will Humans Be Second?: Critical Choices for the Coming AI-First World
12/9/2020 0.75 CAE credits
Exceptional Boards: Strengthening the Governance Team
- The Board’s Ethical, Fiduciary and Accountability Role Characteristics and Principles of Exceptional Boards
10/5/2020 1.5 CAE credits
ASAE Annual Meeting – 2020
- Unenforceable? Associations and Codes of Ethics/Conduct in 2020—A Legal Deep Dive
8/10/2020 0.75 CAE credits
ASAE Annual Meeting – 2019
- Unpacking ASAE’s Ethics Toolkit
8/11/2019 1.5 CAE credits
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