Education Committee

The Education Committee reviews and advises the Board of Directors matters related to archival education and professional learning for archives and records professionals in Canada. Specific duties include:

• Advising on strategic directions for professional learning initiatives
  
• Planning and facilitating professional learning workshops at the annual conference and across Canada to design and deliver professional development programming close to home
• Reviewing and recommendations for continually improving the ACA’s Guidelines for a Graduate Program in Archival Studies
  

Members (2019)
Glenn Dingwall, Chair
Greg Bak
Jason Carrie
Gillian Dunks
Lauren MacLean
Alexandra Mills
Devon Mordell
Amanda Oliver

Current Initiatives

The Education Committee has three main tasks that it is currently working on, consistent with the ACAs strategic plan. It is working to develop new professional development opportunities for members. The Committee is working with the Program Committee for the 2020 conference to include a professional development stream as part of the conference, and it is working on identifying member's development needs and looking for ways to deliver relevant local and regional instruction and training at other times during the year. The Committee is researching the pros and cons of accreditation, for graduate archival education programs, and for professional archivists. Finally, the Committee is developing a plan for keeping the Association's graduate education guidelines current and relevant through a process of regular periodic review and revision. (Updated September 2019)

For more information about the Education Committee, please contact education@archivists.ca.