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Museums and the Future of Work: A Call for Collaboration

By Elizabeth Merritt

Hi, Nicole here. In today’s short post, I’m sharing some exciting news—and making a call for your collaboration! This spring, CFM will be holding a national convening on museums and the future of work. The two-day event builds …
Improving the Future of Hiring

By Elizabeth Merritt

Last week I blogged about the “unbiased hiring” process that we used to fill a recent CFM position here at AAM.Today I wanted to follow up with a few related thoughts sparked by conversations at the Labor 3.0 encounters that CFM …
My Recap from a Workplace Inclusion Forum

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s guest post is by the Alliance’s president & CEO, Laura Lott.She’s been on the hunt for resources to help AAM become a more inclusive workplace, and that search took her to Minneapolis for what turned out to be …
Labor 3.0: Museums and Co-working Spaces

By Elizabeth Merritt

Finding a stable business model for museums in the 21st century is going to take more than patching the old income streams. The goals and expectations of government funding and philanthropy are changing, and there’s more competition for …
How Might Museums Make Future Learning Ecosystems More Resilient?

By Elizabeth Merritt

Happy American Education Week! To help us celebrate, Katherine Prince of KnowledgeWorks invites you to join her on an exploratory mission to 2025–a future of education in which museums play a starring role. You can review CFM’s …
Research Roundup: SurveyingThe Employment Landscape

By Elizabeth Merritt

With today’s post, ACLS Public Fellow (and CFM Futurist-in-Training) Dr. Nicole Ivy launches a new occasional feature on the blog: a roundup of recent research relevant to her work and (we hope) to yours. As part of my wonderings about …
Monday Musing: A Radical Proposal on Student Debt

By Elizabeth Merritt

Student debt is a huge issue in our field, especially for emerging museum professionals. So this article caught my attention last week: No more student loans? Purdue University proposes selling shares of students’ future income. Purdue is …
Futurist Friday: the Future of Work, and Happinesss

By Elizabeth Merritt

In a recent article in the Atlantic, Derek Thompson refers to work as the “unofficial religion of America.” Thompson is the latest in a long lineage of prognosticators envisioning a future in which most people don’t have …
Monday Musing: On Failure

By Elizabeth Merritt

I was a dinner a couple months ago, when people started dissing buzzwords. One that came in for a hit was “failure.” “I hate it when people start touting the importance of failure” one diner declared (I’m paraphrasing here). The …
Monday Musing: Fighting for Diversity and Against Unconscious Bias

By Elizabeth Merritt

Two articles for my quick Monday thought:This depressing article from the NYTimes by a researcher who has been documenting how selection criteria in corporate America suppress diversity. He finds that the practices of selecting applicants …