VETERANS CURATION PROGRAM

The Veterans Curation Program (VCP) was created for two purposes: (1) to provide veterans a bridging experience from military service into the public sector and (2) to process at-risk archaeological collections belonging to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers... The Veterans Curation Program (VCP) is a five-month program in the flagship lab locations (Alexandria, VA; Augusta, GA; St. Louis, MO; and San Mateo, CA) that provides employment, vocational training, and technology skills to veterans seeking to improve their access to the mainstream job market. The VCP was created to process at-risk archaeological collections belonging... The VCP was created to process at-risk archaeological collections belonging to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Many of these collections require rehabilitation in order to meet federal standards, and the VCP employs veterans as laboratory technicians to perform this work. This includes cataloging and photographing artifacts, and cleaning, scanning, and re-..

Primary location: Fayetteville United States