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ACRA Supports New Bill to Preserve African American Burial Grounds
ACRA is pleased to support the African American Burial Grounds Network Act, which was introduced in Congress yesterday by Rep. Don McEachin (D-VA) and Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC). This legislation is consistent with our commitment to providing accurate information about...
A Different Kind of Day Off: AINW’s Volunteer Service Day
This post is authored by Jo Reese, VP/Senior Archaeologist with Archaeological Investigations Northwest, Inc. (AINW) in Portland, Oregon. This year, Archaeological Investigations Northwest, Inc., (AINW) offered to have Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as our first ever...
Call for Sessions: 2019 ACRA Conference
Do you have a topic that you think would be perfect for a presentation to fellow CRMers? Is there a discussion you think the industry should be having? If so, we want to know! The Call for Sessions for the 2019 ACRA Conference is open! The ACRA Annual Meeting is a...
CRM Firms in the News: Volume Two
Readers can now find relevant news items compiled all in one place! In our CRM Firms in the News series, we feature recent mentions of ACRA member firms and their projects across the country. Was your firm recently featured in a news article or on social media? Send...
Best Practices for No-Collection Projects and In-field Analysis
Many agencies have turned to no collection field strategies in recent years. Unfortunately, these strategies vary widely and are implemented with very little data, so we don’t know if they are effective. Several members of the Collection and Curation Committee have...
A Paperless Future? Digital Methods in CRM
This post is authored by Kye Miller, Senior Project Director at PaleoWest Archaeology. At the dawn of my career as an archaeologist, like most of us, I learned to draft site sketch maps with a compass and pacing, all forms and logs were kept on paper, and transects...
SAVE THE DATE: CRM Day on Capitol Hill
SAVE THE DATE: MAY 16-17 Join ACRA in Washington, D.C. on May 16-17 for CRM Day on Capitol Hill! We’ll be meeting with Senators and Representatives to discuss the CRM industry. There are 100 new members of Congress, and lots of new staffers too. We need to...
Tell Us How the Shutdown Affected You
Now that the government has reopened (until February 15 at least), federal government workers are back on the job. President Trump signed a bill that allowed direct federal employees to get back pay for the length of the shutdown – but what about contractors? Many CRM...
Academic-CRM Industry Synergy: Education and Training
PROMOTING SYNERGY BETWEEN THE ACADEMY AND THE CRM INDUSTRY: EDUCATION AND TRAINING I have been leading an ongoing ACRA Task Force focused on “promoting synergy between the academy and the CRM industry” for the past year. The Task Force, consisting of academic and CRM...
Exploring Our Past to Build Our Future – Announcing the 2019 ACRA Conference
The 2019 ACRA Conference may be months away, but preparations are already underway for this exciting event! This year attendees will be converging on Spokane, Washington from October 24–27 to exchange ideas, meet new colleagues, and hear updates on our industry. This...