To register and pay for a course, simply follow these steps:
Steps
Fill out the Registration Form and select your course. Please complete one Registration Form per course. Completing the Registration Form reserves your place in the course. You will only be charged once you complete the Payment Form. Register early, as many courses fill quickly.
Fill out the Payment Form. Pay the course fee ONLY after your course is confirmed to run. Please be aware that using your credit card will incur transaction fees. These fees are not refundable if you choose to cancel your registration. There are no fees if you pay via checking or savings account. International payments are made via a different payment form. Please contact Nicolette Meister if you need to make a payment from outside the U.S.
Fill out the Scholarship Payment Formif you received a NEH Scholarship. This form reflects the scholarship discounts. Pay the course fee ONLY after your course is confirmed to run.
If you have any questions about billing or payment, please contact the Beloit College Accounting Office at (608) 363-2239.
More Information
As a Beloit College summer program, the Center for Collections Care will adhere to Beloit College COVID-19 related decisions and will respond accordingly. To learn more about the College’s response, please view the COVID-19 Information page.
Participants should not finalize travel arrangement until they receive confirmation that their class has met the minimum enrollment. The Center strongly recommends that participants make refundable travel plans. The Center will not reimburse participants for travel expenses or credit card transaction fees.
If Beloit College cancels a course at any time, participants will receive a full course fee refund.
Participants will receive a full course fee refund if they cancel one-month before the course start date.
Participants who cancel two-weeks before the course start date will receive a full course fee refund, minus a $200 administrative fee.
Email the program director, Nicolette Meister, to cancel your registration: meistern@xiaoneizhi.com.
The Center for Collections Care at Beloit College is pleased to offer scholarships funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities for in-person and online courses in 2025. $250 scholarships for online courses and $600 scholarships for in-person courses are available.
APPLY EARLY TO ENSURE YOUR BEST CHANCE OF RECEIVING A SCHOLARSHIP
REGISTER FOR A COURSE BEFORE YOU APPLY FOR A SCHOLARSHIP; REGISTRATION RESERVES YOUR SPOT IN A COURSE
2025 Scholarships for Online Courses
Forty (40) $250 scholarship are available for spring and fall 2025 online courses. Applicants must submit a complete Scholarship Application to be eligible for a scholarship. Notifications will be made as soon as courses are confirmed to run.
2025 Scholarships for In-person Courses - Closed
All in-person scholarships have been awarded for 2025.
Scholarship Criteria
Feel free to apply for a scholarship even if you do not fit the priority applicant criteria as our goal is to fund as many applicants as possible.
Priority applicants:
Are emerging museum, library, archive, or conservation professional currently enrolled full-time or part-time in a graduate program or five years or less post-graduation.
Are employees, full- or part-time, of a small museum, library, archive, or historical society or site that provides public access to its collections. We use the AASLH definition of a small museum: a small museum typically has an annual budget of less than $250,000, operates with a small staff with multiple responsibilities, and employs volunteers to perform key staff functions.
Are unpaid volunteer museum, library, archive, or conservation professionals.
Have not previously received a scholarship through C3.
Scholarship guidelines:
Only one scholarship may be received each year.
Scholarships must be used in the year in which they are awarded.
Scholarships may be applied to another course offered in the same year the scholarship was awarded if the awardee must withdraw or the course is not confirmed to run.
Scholarship applications are reviewed by and recommendations are made by C3 Advisory Board members.
State and regional professional organizations are often a source of funding for professional development. For example, the Wisconsin Federation of Museums annuall offers two mini-grant awards of up to $1000 to assist affiliate institutions in better preserve, exhibit, and interpret their collecitons and to improve the professional skills of staff.
In addition, with advanced planning, funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grants for Small Institutions can be used for training at the Center for Collections Care at Beloit College.
