[OR_Archaeology] RPA Field School Scholarship $1000! Applic. due April 15

[Susan White]

Announcing the RPA Field School Scholarship!

The Register of Professional Archaeologists announces its Field School
Scholarships, to be awarded annually to four students from RPA-certified
field schools. One scholarship in the amount of $1000 will be awarded by
each of RPA*s sponsoring institutions (AAA, AIA, SAA, SHA) to a
director of an RPA-certified field school, who will then award the
scholarships to a deserving student.  Selection criteria include timely
submission, geographical focus, and field school duration. 

Deadline for application is April 15, 2009. Scholarships will be
announced by May 15, 2009.  

What is RPA Field School Certification?

RPA Certification means that your field school has met a set of
professional standards covering five areas (see
http://www.rpanet.org/associations/8360/files/field_school_guidelines.pdf
for a full discussion of these criteria):

· Purpose. The field school must have both an explicit research design
and an explicit curriculum design that integrates research with student
education.

· Personnel. The Director or Principal Investigator of the field school
must be RPA- certified.

· Operational Procedure. The field school must include formal
instruction on field techniques including excavation, survey, and
laboratory work.

· Field Procedure. The field school must include proper data recovery
and recording techniques.

· Sponsor. The sponsoring institution must provide appropriate
resources for laboratory work, curation, and publication/distribution of
the research results.

Why Certify Your Field School?

Field schools are the training ground for the next generation of
archaeologists and an important public face of archaeology. They should
display our discipline*s highest standards of research and site
stewardship. Both students and prospective employers can be confident
that a certified field school meets established professional standards.
Benefits of certification include: national recognition of your field
school*s high standards of student training and site recording;
advertisement of your field school on RPA and RPA-affiliated web sites;
and eligibility for RPA student field school scholarships.

Details of scholarship announcement along with the application form can
be found at
(http://www.rpanet.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=20).  

If you have any questions about the process simply contact our field
school committee chair, Wes Bernardini (wesley_bernardini at redlands.edu),
or contact me (and at wsu.edu).


Sincerely,
William Andrefsky, Jr.
President RPA

(THE PDF DOC OF THE APPLICATION IS ATTACHED)


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