Online course on insurance and contracts for conservation

Mitigating Risk: Contracts and Insurance for Conservation
FAIC online

June 3-July 1, 2010

FAIC is pleased to offer an online course to meet the needs of
conservators who own or manage a professional conservation business
or laboratory, "Mitigating Risk: Contracts and Insurance for
Conservation" provides readings, case studies, work sheets,
presentations, and exercises to get you thinking and planning. You
will identify the risks you face, and learn how to reduce those
risks and how to manage risks through the use of contracts,
insurance, and other means. Online discussion forums allow you to
draw on the combined experience of other participants, the course
facilitator, and select outside experts. Best of all, "Mitigating
Risk" comes to you. All you need is a computer with Internet access
and you are ready to learn.

About the Course: "Mitigating Risk" is a four-week course. The
course will begin on Thursday, June 3 and continue, with new
activities and discussions each week, through July 1. The course
site will remain available for reference and downloads for two weeks
after the course ends. The instructor, Sarah Lowengard, will guide
discussions and offer tips and resources beyond what you find on the
course site. You may work on the course at any time within each
week.

What the course will cover:

    How to identify risks
    Components of a good contract
    How contracts can be used to reduce risks
    How to identify and locate appropriate insurance for your needs
    Managing contracts
    Creating an overall risk mitigation strategy

    Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this course, you will be
    able to:

        *   Define basic vocabulary relating to contracts, insurance
            and liability

        *   Identify the three most significant risks to your
            conservation business

        *   Understand how to use contracts, insurance and other
            measures to reduce the impact of identified risk

        *   Recognize the components of a well-constructed contract

        *   Read and understand three basic contracts (e.g.,
            insurance, rental agreement, contract for conservation
            treatment)

        *   Identify the types of insurance that may be required by
            law in your state

        *   Identify the role of legal and insurance professionals
            in managing your business risks

Time Requirements: Expect to spend at least six hours per week on
the course--roughly the equivalent of attending a full-day workshop
each week. You will use this time to complete exercises, and to read
and respond to the work of others in the course. You choose when,
according to your own schedule--at noon during your lunch break, in
the evening with a cup of coffee by your side, or at six in the
morning in your favorite jammies.

Technical Requirements: PC or Mac with Internet access.

Registration: The fee for this course is $200 for AIC members, $300
for non-members. Register online at
<URL:http://www.conservation-us.org/courses>

About the Instructor:

    Sarah Lowengard, Ph.D., has more than twenty years' teaching
    experience in both formal university classrooms and informal
    education programs. She has developed, taught, or led courses,
    workshops, and tutorials in art conservation, collections care,
    history, academic research and materials analysis. A
    private-practice art conservator since 1979, she initiated the
    Conservation Course Syllabus Web pages for Conservation OnLine
    and served on the AIC Education and Training Committee.

This course was created with funding from the Getty Foundation. It
is presented with funding from the FAIC Endowment for Professional
Development, which is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
and by gifts from members and friends of the American Institute for
Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.

For more information, contact:

    Education Manager
    Foundation of the American Institute for
    Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
    1156 15th Street, NW, Suite 320
    Washington, DC 20005
    202-452-9545, ext. 8
    Fax: 202-452-9328
    kray<-at->conservation-us<.>org


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