Adapting to the Changing Environment in CRM Graduate Training

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Future of Education and Training in Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Graduate training in cultural resources and heritage management has evolved in the last few decades, from a focus almost exclusively on compliance archaeology, to one where descendant community outcomes and involvement take center stage. It also entails working with new, and often changing, legislation that can seem to conflict with typical processual objectives that were the bread-and-butter of CRM graduate training not that long ago. At Sonoma State University, with one of the longest-lived CRM MA programs in the nation, we are incorporating new perspectives, expanding the nature of student experiences, and trying to forecast where our alumni are going to be in the coming decades. It doesn’t necessarily imply discarding a compliance-based approach, but it means rethinking CRM as a discipline and who the beneficiaries of it need to be. It means working cooperatively with descendant communities to not only safeguard their heritage, on their terms, but to encourage cross-disciplinary interaction and develop outcomes that provide new ways, not only of thinking about the past but of planning for the future.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)   •
• The Future of Education and Training in Archaeology

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Abstract Id(s): 36283.0