Sue, one of the basic requirements to be allowed to sit for the CRM
examinations is the requirement to have a 4-year college (bachelors)
degree.  Along with that is a stiff requirement of a certain number of
years of broad-based professional experience.  The ICRM, at its
discretion, can susbstitute additional years of documented professional
experience for college credit.  So, there is an educational requirement.
 There is a professional experience requirement.  The CRM examination
development teams capture the RIM body of knowledge and relate it back
on the examinations.  So, the CRM examinations are based upon the body
of RIM knowledge, theory, and research that is the hallmark of the RIM
profession.
http://www.icrm.org/
Later...

Best regards, Steve
Steven D. Whitaker, CRM
Records Systems Manager; City of Reno

>>> [log in to unmask] 10/18/05 08:22PM >>>
Dear Steve
Actually, I do know how the CRM works: it is precisely my point that
it
is not an educational qualification, and it not based on a body of
theory and research that is the hallmark of professions.  It tests how
practitioners practice.

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