professional training
In addition to coursework and cooperative group experiences, students have opportunities for professional training through semester- and year-long internships, independent studies, and through the school's required 8-to-12-week summer internship. Students choose to pursue training outside the classroom in many areas of museum work including education, exhibitions, development and collections care. Professional Seminars, offered on Fridays throughout the semester, bring noted museum professionals to Cooperstown to share their expertise for a day.
spring 2007
- Museums and Technology - James Yasko, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
- Investing - Paul Stimmler, Adjunct Professor, Penn State University
- Cultural Entrepreneurship - Phillip Morris, Director, Proctor’s Theater (Schenectady, NY)
- History Day - Tobi Voigt (CGP '06), History Day Coordinator
- Bruce R. Buckley Lecture and Workshop - Susan G. Davis (CGP '78), Professor, University of Illinois, Institute for Communications
fall 2006
- Design Workshop - Doreen DeNicola, DeNicola Design
- Visioning for Pocantico - Charles Granquist, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
- Pod Casting Workshop - John Buchinger, The Farmers' Museum
- Digitizing Your Collections - Toya Dubin, Hudson Microimaging
- CGA Alumni Forum
- Thesis Presentations - Class of 2007
- Keys to a Successful Museum Store - Andrew Andoniadis
spring 2006
- Mount Making - Chris Rossi, Assistant Curator of Exhibitions, NYSHA
- Reading the Landscape - David Schuyler, Chair of American Studies, Franklin and Marshall College
- Museums and Institutional Change - Carl Nold, President, Historic New England
- "Assured Protection for the Negro Traveler:" African Americans and the Changing Etiquette of Race - Gretchen Sullivan Sorin
- History Day service
- Bruce R. Buckley Lecture and Workshop - Joe Hickerson, musician and folklorist
John Emery '06 discusses mount-making techniques with Perry Price '07