Developing a Graduate Education Program
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Developing a Graduate Education Program
In 1991 the General Services Administration approached a number of universities in the Washington, DC area to develop graduate level programs for information resource managers in the federal government. The Catholic University of American created a new position for Ken Megill to develop the program and became the first university to award the IRM certificate.
After completing his master's degree in 1987, Ken Megill was recruited to be an adjunct faculty member while he was the Records Manager at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The new position, created expressly for him, brought him back into the academic environment on a full-time basis once again.
The return to academe enabled him to begin writing again. He organized and led an advisory committee of information professionals familiar with the federal government who collaborated on a book published by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM).
He completed one of the first theoretical presentations of records management for a digital age, which was published by Bowker-Saur, the leading international publisher in information science, in 1997.
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