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Advanced Studies Program
Established in 2000, the Advanced Studies Program
enables the National Park Service to remain an exemplary educational
and management organization by encouraging its employee to seek graduate
level education. Specifically, the program:
* assures NPS personnel that while going to graduate school
through this program, they will remain in pay status;
*will encourage the private sector to create fellowships, knowing that the National
Park Service fully supports graudate studies;
*recognizes that each private sector fellowship has its own selection process;
*will encourage parks' friends organizations to create fellowships for National Park
Service employees. Working with superintendents, parks' friends organizations may
also be able to provide funding for a person to fill the positions of the National
Park Service employee in graudate school; and
*creates opportunities for parks, through partnerships with universities, to locate
qualified people to conduct research in the park and/or fill National Park Service
positions while the employee is in gradue school.
[Notification of the establishment of the program occured on
June 6, 2000, through a memorandum by Director Robert Stanton. Director
Fran Mainella reiterated the importance of the program on June 7, 2002.]
Full description of the program
Contact: Sandy Taylor (202-354-1413) or Victoria Clarke-Wood (202-354-1403)
for the Advanced Studies Fellowship (see above)
Contact: Dwight Pitcaithley (202-354-2214) for the Edwin C. Bearss Fellowship (see below)
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