Opportunity Information: Apply for P20AS00056
The grant opportunity titled "Enhance Student Career Development through NPS Collections Cataloging and Preservation" is a National Park Service (NPS) cooperative agreement focused on strengthening museum and archaeological collections care in Alaska while giving university students hands-on career training. The NPS has a legal and stewardship responsibility to preserve cultural resources connected to national park units, including museum collections and archaeological materials. Because Alaska parklands have been home to Indigenous communities for thousands of years, the region contains a very large number of archaeological sites and associated objects that must be properly managed, documented, and preserved in line with federal law and NPS policy.
A central driver for this project is a significant curatorial backlog at the Alaska Regional Curatorial Center (ARCC). At the time of the announcement, the NPS reported at least 60,000 archaeological objects awaiting curation and preservation work. The cooperative agreement is designed to reduce that backlog by having trained student participants assist with core collections management tasks, including cataloging, processing, and rehousing objects to professional museum standards. In practice, that means students would help ensure items are correctly identified, documented, and physically stored using appropriate archival methods so they remain stable and accessible for future research, interpretation, and long-term stewardship.
The partnership is specifically between the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) Department of Anthropology and the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Student participants would provide curatorial support to ARCC while working with collections originating from multiple Alaska park units, including Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, the Western Arctic Parklands, Kenai Fjords National Park, and other NPS sites across the state. A major emphasis is training: students are expected to be instructed in the curatorial procedures they will perform, giving them practical skills that can translate into future employment or advancement in museum work, archaeology, cultural resource management, or related fields. The project is also framed as supporting broader agency goals by improving the effectiveness, credibility, and public acceptability of NPS cultural resource stewardship.
Administratively, this opportunity is listed as a discretionary award using a cooperative agreement funding instrument, under an education and humanities activity category (cultural affairs). The CFDA number is 15.945. Eligibility is limited to public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, but this particular notice is explicitly a notice of intent to award to the University of Alaska Anchorage, meaning applications were not accepted from any other entity. The funding opportunity number is P20AS00056, with an award ceiling of $275,000 and an expectation of one award. The notice was created on April 6, 2020, with an original closing date of April 12, 2020. The anticipated outcome of the project is substantial: at least 60,000 items are expected to be cataloged and rehoused to professional standards over the course of the agreement, directly improving preservation conditions and long-term management of culturally significant collections held by Alaska national parks.Apply for P20AS00056
- The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the education, humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Enhance Student Career Development through NPS Collections Cataloging and Preservation" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.945.
- This funding opportunity was created on Apr 06, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 12, 2020 This is a notice of intent to award to University of Alaska Anchorage. Applications will not be accepted from any other entity.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $275,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
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