This topic is one of the top goals on ARMA's Strategic Radar Screen.
Input is welcomed and encouraged.  Feel free to comment on the Forum, or
to any of ARMA's Board of Directors.

Judy K. Tyler, CRM
Records Management Officer
Information Management Division
USA MEDDAC
Fort Hood, TX  76544-4752
(254) 288-8009
(DSN) 738-8009


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Subject: Re: Time to Mange Paper - Follow-up

In a message dated 11/2/2004 1:21:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, Bruce
White <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>Dr. Eugenia Brumm, in her acceptance speech of the Emmett Leahy award
(well deserving I might add) in Long Beach, observed that the RM
community is not well regarded within academia.   With recognition comes
research opportunities as well as $$$.

I agree, but more particularly where should RM be taught? In the Library
Science program, what about IT programs or better yet MBA programs.


>Only a handful of courses in records management are offered at the
graduate level  and most of these appear to be an afterthought.  And as
far as I can tell, no RM program exists, not within the U.S. anyway.

do we really need a separate RM graduate program? (heretic!) or do we
need to promote the teaching of the concepts in a variety of programs
(see comment above). I would like to see some sort of interdisciplinary
program developed that provides the student of RM with knowledge from
the business admin, library science and IT worlds.

> Yet I believe it is very difficult to teach the complexities and
issues of the RM discipline in one class.

The vast material tested in the CRM process supports your belief. there
is no way that all of RM can be taught in one semester.

>
>ARMA has an opportunity to champion this effort.

Most definitely

>
>more research opportunities will become available and with it, surveys
and data that can help all of us in the profession.

I think the research opps are definitely being handled well by the
Educational Foundation. What needs to be done is for us to grow the
Educational foundation's financial support. once that has been
stabilized and enlarged, they can then approach MBA programs to initiate
RM studies or research programs.

lots of opportunities.
--
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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