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 > > > > ========================================================= > > Important Subscriber Information: > > > > The Museum-L FAQ file is located at > http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed > information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message > to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" > (without the quotes). > > > > If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to > [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff > Museum-L" (without the quotes). > > > > ========================================================= > Important Subscriber Information: > > The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). > > If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). > ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).