In recognition of current trends in archeological employment, PANYC
(Professional Archaeologists of New York City) is pleased to invite you to
a Forum entitled "Changing Career Paths and the Training of Professional
Archaeologists".  The Forum will take place:
 
                Saturday, October 25, 1997
                12:30 - 5:00 PM
                Sulzberger Parlor (3rd Floor)
                Barnard College
                117th Street and Broadway
                New York City
 
In recent years it has become apparent that graduate training in archeology
is not as relevant as it should be to the careers that most post-graduate
practitioners follow.  The academic labor market has been shrinking, while
alternative employment opportunities in historic preservation and cultural
resource management have emerged as the dominant workplaces for most
practitioners.  Many of the skills needed for these job tracks are not
taught in most graduate programs.  Members of the professional community
have questioned whether or not graduate education should be restructured,
and if so, how this can be accomplished with shrinking numbers of faculty.
Some suggest that graduate programs currently produce students inadequately
trained for the most widely available positions.  Still others argue that
the university is not the place for the teaching of such highly specialized
skills.
 
To explore these questions we have assembled a list of speakers well known
in the New York City archeological community.  They represent academic,
government, and private sector interests and perspectives.
 
                        Program Agenda
 
A.M Cantwell              Faculty, Rutgers University       Introduction to the Forum
Nan Rothschild    Faculty, Columbia University      Academia and Job Training
David Bernstein        Director, SUNY-Stony Brook/CRM       CRM in an
Academic Setting
Susan Dublin              Ph.D. Program, CUNY               Graduate Students and Jobs
David Hurst Thomas          Curator, American Museum of     Future of Museum
Employment
                          Natural History
Louise Basa               New York State Department of      Job Skills & the Public
Sector
                            Environmental Conservation
Joel Klein                Sr. Project Manager,              New Grads & the Private Sector
                            John Milner Associates, Inc.
Chad Gifford              Chad Gifford, Columbia University   Expectations for
Employment
Joseph Schuldenrein       President, Geoarcheology Research   Grad Training &
Reality
 
Formal presentations will be followed by an open floor discussion in what
promises
to be a lively debate on the future of archeological training and its
ramifications not only in the NYC area but across the United States.  The
Executive Director of the Society for American Achaeology (SAA) has
expressed that organization's enthusiasm for the topic and program.
 
If you are a professional archeologist or, more significantly, hope to be
one, we encourage you to attend this session.  Feel free to invite your
friends and colleagues.  Feel free to circulate this notice to others.
 
We apologize for multiple postings.