Pursuit of a MA/BA takes place on the employee's free time,
away from
work.  If they are willing to make the commitment I think it shows a high
level of professional integrity.  Many times people attend training
seminars just to get out of work or out of town.

Amy
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Ann Rybon wrote:

> Thanks for your response.  We actually do fund a lot of seminar and 4-5 day
> training for our staff.  The real question is going after a masters or even
> a BA.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Deb Fuller <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 5:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Continuing Education Reimbursement
>
>
> > In a message dated 6/8/00 5:39:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask]
> > writes:
> >
> > > Does anyone have any suggestion? At what level does the Museum
> participate,
> > >  100% if related to current position? Do you require a minium number of
> > years
> > >  work before you offer this benefit, or require continued service after
> for
> > a
> > >  period of time?
> >
> > IMHO - training is invaluable and should be available to all, regardless
> of
> > time of service at the museum. For example, if your curators wanted to go
> to
> > a seminar on preservation techniques that could be directly applied to the
> > collection they work on, why would you want to keep someone from that
> unless
> > you knew they were gonig to be leaving soon and not using their training
> at
> > your museum?
> >
> > The way I've seen training handled is a couple of ways. One is to give
> people
> > a fixed training budget per year. This could be per department or per
> person.
> > I think anything under $1000 is an insult as one can barely take a Word
> > workshop for that amount of money let alone attend a professional
> conference.
> >
> > The other way is to handle it on a case by case basis or let the
> supervisors
> > handle training requests. If people are asking for reasonable training
> that
> > relates to their jobs and there is money, let them do it but track it in
> case
> > things start to get out of hand. I think people are smart and won't take
> > advantage of it if you make it clear that they should only ask for things
> > that are relevant to their jobs and keep an eye out for training they'd
> like
> > to attend.
> >
> > Deb
> >
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