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Alumni/ae Employment and Support Network
A recent survey showed that about 90 percent of UVM Historic Preservation Program graduates
are actively employed in the preservation field--approximately
one-third in nonprofit organizations, a third in the private sector
and the remainder in local, state and federal government. UVM
alumni/ae have worked in nearly ever state in the US,
as well as in Canada, England, Malaysia, Hungary and Nevis.
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While serving as Executive Director of the Historic Fredericksburg Foundation in Fredericksburg, Virginia, UVM alumna, Renee Viers, helped stop a proposed WalMart development on George Washington's boyhood home farm. Renee is now Associate Director of State and Local Policy for the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, DC. |
UVM preservation
alumni have served as chief executive officers or professional
staff of local, state, and national major preservation organizations
and agencies including: National Trust for Historic Preservation,
Heritage Canada, National Park Service, Federal Highway Administration, Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, Preservation Maryland,
Massachusetts Historical Commission, Historic Boston, Historic Albany Foundation, Greater Portland
Landmarks, New Haven Preservation Trust, Miami Purchase Preservation
Fund, Providence Preservation Revolving Fund, Historic York, Preservation
Action, Arizona Historic Preservation Office, Connecticut Trust
for Historic Preservation, Savannah
Landmark, Historic Charleston Foundation, Historic Fredericksburg
Foundation, Mount Vernon, U.S. ICOMOS, Historic New England (Society for the Preservation
of New England Antiquities), Canadian Canoe Museum, Rokeby Museum,
Dade County Preservation Office, Philadelphia Historic Preservation
Corporation, City of Philadelphia, City of Burlington, and Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, New Hampshire Department of Transportation, Kansas State Historical Society and the Colorado Historical Society. Other alumni are working in the private sector as consultants and for a range of cultural resource management and preservation development firms.
The
program is supported by an active network of alumni/ae.
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