Bridging the Gap Between CRM and Academia: A Potential Model
Author(s): Michelle A. Slaughter; Karin Larkin
Year: 2018
Summary
In general, State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPO) designed guidelines and timelines for compliance projects that mitigate cultural resources potentially impacted by proposed development. These purposes are fundamentally different from those of academic work and field schools, which focus on theory based interpretation and field techniques. Yet academic field schools are designed to prepare students for a professional life beyond their undergraduate career and for most that means working in Cultural Resource Management (CRM). The disjuncture in purpose of CRM versus academia translates into students who are unprepared for CRM work. In addition, reporting and permitting structures of the SHPOs results in field schools draining university faculty and resources. We present a possible solution by describing a collaboration model between a CRM firm and an anthropology department. We discuss our funding and the benefits to students, the academic institution, and the contract firm.
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Bridging the Gap Between CRM and Academia: A Potential Model. Michelle A. Slaughter, Karin Larkin. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441617)
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Keywords
General
Academia
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collaboration
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CRM
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
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PaperId(s): 709