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Yahoo Group

Faculty in COPAA member programs may join the Yahoo Group “copaa-members.” If you would like to join, ask Sunil Khanna to subscribe you by sending a message to skhanna@oregonstate.edu. The Yahoo Group includes an email list and an archive of documents. Members of the group can post messages to the email list at copaa-members@yahoogroups.com. They can view the archive and other information at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/copaa-members.

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Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Here are documents that provide models and suggestions for applied anthropology programs. They are a way for COPAA member programs to learn from each others’ experiences. Most are summaries of sessions organized by COPAA for various anthropology conferences.

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Guidelines for Training Practicing Anthropologists

This document, developed in 1995, provides guidelines for the design and administration of degree-granting graduate training programs for practicing anthropologists.

The complete document may be found at http://www.practicinganthropology.org/departments/
?section=training_guidelines

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Alumni Survey

In 2000, NAPA sponsored a survey of alumni of master's level applied anthropology training programs.  The purpose of the survey was to determine what specific skills practicing anthropologists, with master's degrees, are using in the workplace.  Robert Harman, Jim Hess, and Amir Shafe prepared the report on this survey; it can be downloaded here.

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Linda A. Bennett
Chair, COPAA
Professor of Anthropology
and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research
107 Scates Hall
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN 38152
(901) 678-3371
lbennett@memphis.edu