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Awards for Minority Museum Professionals

Program size remained approximately the same as last year. Representation of racial/ethnic groups, diversification of geographic location, and range of museum positions held by participants continued to improve. Figure B-2 shows the racial/ethnic group of participants

Figure B-2

Awards For Minority Museum Professionals

[[4 column table]]

- | 1986 | 1987 | 1988
Black | 9 | 11 | 7
Hispanic | 5 | 7 | -
Asian Amer. | 2 | 5 | 6
Amer. Ind. | 9 | 3 | 5

Source: OEO

Career Awareness Program

The Career Awareness Program (CAP) further strengthened museum learning opportunities for junior and senior high school students. A pilot junior interpreter program at the National Museum of American History. Eight junior and senior high school students were trained to help facilitate the activities of the Hands-On History Room.

CAP staff participated as presenters at the annual American Association of Museums conference and the African American Museums Association Conference and Tenth Anniversary. The National Museum of African Art hosted the CAP spring core program. Nine students participated in African art appreciation classes and the regular seven-week museum-based curriculum designed to introduce them to museum careers. Seventy student interns were placed in thirty-three offices and museums around the Institution. Although most stipends were provided by the Mayor's Youth Employment Program, eight students received stipends through the Institution's Federal Stay-In-School, Federal Junior Fellowship, Minority, or Cooperative Education Programs. CAP staff provided orientation and training classes to the students and their supervisors.

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