I'm seeking a member of the SHA who will be attending the SAA meeting in
Denver this week.  Margie Purser serves on the SHA's Education and
Professional Development Committee as our contact with the SAA's Task Force
on Curriculum Reform.  Unfortunately, neither she or I can attend the SAA's
this year.  Jim Delle has offered to attend the meeting for us, but if the
preliminary program is correct, he has an irreconcilable conflict.

For those not familiar with the Curriculum Reform Task Force, this is the
SAA's working group trying to produce feedback to Colleges and Universities
on training archaeologists in the twenty-first century.  It is very
important that we have a representative there, so that someone in the room
can advocate such skills as historic structures recordation and archival
research as equals for petrography and GIS training.

It is important that our rep be known within the SAA community. I hope
someone with some academic capital will volunteer-- someone with interest in
this area and also with recent publications and scholarship.  I checked the
preliminary program, and the Task Force on Curriculum Reform is Thursday,
March 21st, 4-6 pm.  I don't know if the time/day changed in the final
program, and the web site pdf file is not functioning.

Please respond off list if you might be able to attend.
My sincere thanks,
Tim Scarlett

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Timothy James Scarlett
Incipient Assistant Professor of Archaeology
Program in Industrial History and Archaeology
Department of Social Sciences
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, Michigan 49931-1295 USA
Tel (906) 487-2113 Fax (906) 487-2468 Internet [log in to unmask]
MTU Website: http://www.industrialarchaeology.net
SHA Website: http://www.sha.org  SIA Website: http://www.sia-web.org
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