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The Campus Radiation Safety Officers (CRSO) is a voluntary, scientific, and professional society that was formed in the 1970s to support health physicists working specifically in educational environments. The vision and mission of the CRSO is to provide inexpensive, focused opportunities for information exchange. In practice, the CRSO organized and supported smaller, more focused and informal national and regional conferences in a roundtable format. CRSO conferences always focused on topics found in higher-education environments.

The CRSO has been inactive for several years, so key individuals began looking for avenues to continue to foster their initiatives and utilize their funds. After consultation with the Health Physics Society (HPS) leadership, it seemed the most logical thing to do was to enter a joint venture with the Academic, Industrial, and Research Radiation Safety (AIRRS) Section of the HPS as their goals and objectives were aligned with the CRSO mission.

The key CRSO members and AIRRS Section leadership discussed the possibility of a joint venture. On 1 September 2021, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the AIRRS Section of HPS and the CRSO. To further support this joint venture, CRSO donated its existing funds to the AIRRS Section to be managed and maintained by the AIRRS Section "in good faith." The combined funds will be used to continue to foster, support, and promote educational, research, and operational objectives both efficiently and effectively.

The CRSO members who persevered and helped create this joint venture are Kelly Classic, Jim DeZetter, Jim Herrold, Ninni Jacob, Marcum Martz, Susan Masih, Vicki Morris, Ken Smith, and Paul R. Steinmeyer.

The AIRRS Section leaders who worked with the CRSO are Carl Tarantino (President), Cathy Ribaudo (Past Secretary/Treasurer), Caitlin Root (Secretary/Treasurer), and Latha Vasudevan (President-elect and HPS Board Director).

Both the CRSO and the AIRRS Section leaders thank the HPS Secretariat for facilitating the donation of funds from CRSO to the AIRRS Section.