Partnership with ARC

We encourage scholars to apply for partnership with us. While our process is academically vigorous and may take up to 6 months, working with ARC brings several benefits:

1. Our overhead in minimal, allowing field school tuition to be among the lowest in archaeology and therefore affordable to more students.
2. We use economies of scale in advertising the field school, providing program directors with significant exposure.
3. Students applying for ARC field schools are a very diverse group coming from universities across the world. They are typically top quality, with average GPA of 3.60.
4. ARC runs the enrollment process but only field school directors decide who to admit.
5. Students earn 8 semester credit units for a four week program (through Culver Stockton College, our school of record). Such a large amount of credit units allows students to graduate faster and significantly offset the cost of the field school (paying less tuition at home school).
6. We provide full (and significant) funding to support research and training in archaeology
7. We provide all students and staff with full liability, evacuation and accident insurance. We provide full health insurance ($0 deductible) to all program participants for all field schools outside the U.S.
8. All graduating ARC students earn free one year membership with the Registrar of Professional Archaeologists.
9. We provide students with scholarships and no interest loans (see our Payment Plan) to help them pay and attend the field school.
10. We support faculty research and teaching and believe we are a true service organization. Our role is to serve, not dictate or interfere in your research. All we ask in return is excellence in research (publications) and Teaching.
11. We partner with the Center for Field Sciences to conduct independent, disinterested third party evaluation of field schools. We pay the evaluation fee on behalf of the field school from our overhead allocation.

Interested in learning more? Contact admin@anthroctr.org to explore the possibility of partnership.

We try to make the review and onboarding process transparent and straight forward as possible. The process may take a few months and below are the steps we follow:

1. Initial intake Zoom interview where we discuss the project, location, logistics and research (not necessarily in this order).
2. Site visit with the project director.
3. If cleared to apply after the site visit, project director is asked to submit the following documents:
   • Application for a new program
   • Syllabus following ARC format
   • Budget following ARC format
   • CV of field school director who will serve as the Instructor of Record.
   • Eight images from the field
   • Images all project directors and their academic affiliation.
4. All documents are submitted to the Center for Field Sciences for peer review
5. If approved, ARC creates a program page on our website and field school director is added to the enrollment system, to review all applications.

We continue reviewing each of our field schools each year, to make sure we always deliver quality programs to our students. Part of this evaluation process includes mandatory student evaluations, field school director annual report and update on all publications.