Trainings

Online and Customized Training Available
 

Protecting seminar participants, instructors, staff of Cooperating Organizations, and everyone who works with NPI to fulfill its mission is our highest priority during these challenging times.

NPI online on-demand courses and webinar training options complement our seminar curriculum. Click here for a list of available modules. We will be adding new online training modules on a regular basis. We also are accepting proposals from potential instructors on new topics.

In-person scheduled seminars are planned for 2023. A calendar will be posted early next year.

We would be glad to discuss the option of online and in-person customized training with interested organizations. 

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NPI offers continuing education and professional training for those involved in the management, preservation, and stewardship of cultural heritage. NPI serves a broad spectrum of individuals and groups from the government and private sectors by providing online on-demand courses and webinars, and seminars in historic preservation and cultural resource management.

• Customized Training
• Who Should Attend
• Training Formats
• Faculty
• Continuing Education Credits
• Certificates of Attendance

Customized Training

NPI offers customized training to meet specific organizational needs. Continuing education and professional trainings may be tailored to create online on-demand courses and webinars, and single- or multiple-day seminars at a location and time convenient to the sponsor. NPI also can develop other preservation-related trainings. For a list of organizations that have worked with NPI to receive customized training and/or related conference services, visit the Customized Training page. Read more.

Who Should Attend

NPI trainings focus on topics of current concern to individuals and professionals involved in the management and stewardship of cultural and historic resources, charged with compliance and contracting, and/or involved in the cultural resource and environmental management process.

• Advocates and community leaders
• Archaeologists
• Architects and landscape architects
• Contractors, consultants, and project managers
• Cultural and natural resource managers responsible for compliance requirements
• Design, engineering, and public works professionals
• Development, fundraising, and grant-writing professionals
• Economic and tourism industry professionals
• Facility managers of historic properties: structures, landscapes, and other resources
• Federal, state, local government officials, staff, and SHPOs
• Historians, architectural historians, and photographers
• Historic district, landmark, and zoning commission members
• Historic site administrators, museum curators, and collection managers
• Housing specialists and developers
• Land management organization members and staff
• National, statewide, and local preservation organization members and staff
• Native American tribal leaders, staff, and THPOs
• Preservation, land use, and facility planners 
• Public administrators, attorneys, and environmental specialists

Training Formats

In all training formats, participants have the opportunity to gain new knowledge, and often new skills, that are immediately applicable to their current concerns or those of their organizations or clients.

The in-person seminar format encourages discussion and allows time to focus on issues of particular interest to individuals in the group. Seminars vary in length, from one to three days, and, generally, are held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The online on-demand course format provides 30- to 90-minute asynchronous learning modules that participants can take at any time. There is no interaction between participants and instructor.

The online webinar format provides 60- to 90-minute scheduled synchronous learning modules that provide interaction between participants and instructor through a question-and-answer session during and/or at the end of the training.

Faculty

NPI's continuing education and professional trainings are taught by nationally recognized educators, consultants, and practitioners in historic preservation, archaeology, architecture and landscape architecture, conservation, engineering, historical research, laws and regulations, planning, restoration, technology, and cultural resource management. To learn more about an instructor, visit the Faculty page. Read more.

Continuing Education Credits

NPI does not participate in any continuing education programs offered by professional organizations. Self-reporting may be an option for members of organizations that require continuing education credits. 

Certificates of Attendance

Certificates of attendance indicating completion of training are available from NPI. For online on-demand courses and webinars: participants who complete a module may request and receive a certificate at the end of the training. For seminars: certificates are mailed at the end of each semester to participants who attend the entire seminar. Participants may request a certificate during the registration process by checking the box on the registration form. A certificate for a one-day seminar provides 6 training hours, a two-day seminar provides 12 training hours, and a three-day seminar provides 18 training hours.