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American Association for State and Local History
Project Management for History Professionals Workshop
May 3-5, 2011
Windsor Historical Society
Windsor, CT

The Connecticut Humanities Council is pleased to announce that it is working with the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) to bring AASLH's Project Management for History Professionals workshop to Connecticut May 3-5, 2011. The workshop will be held at the Windsor Historical Society in Windsor, CT.

The Connecticut program is one of twelve nation-wide workshops offering 35 hours of formal project management training to history professionals. The training, 24 hours of on-site workshop training plus 11 hours of follow-up live webinar training, qualifies professionals in the history field to sit for the project management certification exam through Project Management International (PMI).

The goal of the program is to improve how history museums operate by bringing in the expertise of certified project management trainers from outside of the discipline to teach the fundamentals of project management to history professionals. This workshop instructs history professionals in best practices for establishing project requirements and planning and organizing work to meet them. The program teaches skills that strengthen the processes history professionals apply in their everyday work including exhibitions, education programs, fundraising initiatives, special events, outreach activities, and collections-based projects. These skills are critical to the development of improved processes and, therefore, an institution's improved ability to serve its community.

The workshop is offered free to participants through a generous grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). A $200 travel stipend is awarded to workshop participants when the follow-up webinar training is completed.

Applications for the workshop are received on a rolling basis beginning December 1, 2010 and will continue to be accepted until all workshop slots are filled.

Additional Information and an application for the program can be found at:
www.aaslh.org/projectmanagement.htm

or by contacting:

Steve Hoskins, AASLH Project Management for History Professionals Program at Hoskins@aaslh.org