Resources for Programs
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.
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.
- Preparing Applied Anthropologists for the 21st Century (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2007)
- Skills Education and Training for Applied Anthropologists (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2007)
- Tenure and Promotion for Applied Anthropologists: Deans’ and Chairs’ Perspectives (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2007)
- Institutional Review Boards and Applied Research (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2007)
- Applied Anthropology Skills Education and Training: Perspectives from the Field and the Workplace (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2007)
Allies on the Front Line: Perspective from our Community Partners (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2006) - Tenure and Promotion in Applied Anthropology: Preparation for Documentation of Scholarship (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2006)
- Tenure and Promotion in Applied Anthropology (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2005)
- Practitioner and Academic Collaborations in the Training of Students: Opportunities and Challenges (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2005)
- Structural Trends in Anthropology Departments and Programs: Expansion and Contraction (COPAA session, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2004)
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
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.
