Lessons Learned: Managing Cultural Resources on One College Campus

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "At Stake in the Quad: Archaeologies on/of Campus", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) has been designated as the “growth campus” of the CU system. UCCS occupies land once home to indigenous tribes, sheep herders, and a tuberculosis sanatorium. As a result, UCCS administration turned to the Anthropology department to help mitigate the impacts of growth on our campus cultural resources. The department, in consultation with the SHPO, realized the campus needed a management plan to avoid overtaxing the archaeology faculty and guide the growth in an ethical and legal manner. This led to a State Historical Fund grant designed to support an academic/CRM collaboration project with a field school to create this plan. In 2015, we started that multi-year collaboration to create a Cultural Resources Management Plan for the campus. Here we share some lessons learned from this process including insights into our collaborative process, challenges, successes, pedagogy, and future steps.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• At Stake in the Quad: Archaeologies on/of Campus

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