Twelve years of free, practitioner-led short courses on federal records management, information governance, and the policy and tooling that surround them. Five one-hour sessions a semester. No tuition, no pop quizzes, no product pitch: just 9,000+ records, IG, and compliance pros who've pulled up a chair.
RMU is a free, structured curriculum on federal records management, information governance, and the policy and tooling that surround them. The faculty are working practitioners. The lectures are short. Miss one? Ask and we'll send you the recording, so you're never the one left treading water in a flood of paperwork.
Each session is a self-contained one-hour course on a single subject: authorities, retention, electronic records operations, defensible disposition, and the wider RM governance landscape. Drop in for one. Take all five.
Every semester is co-led by working practitioners in records management, archives, FOIA, and federal information governance. They speak from programs they actually run, with the constraints, judgment calls, and trade-offs intact.
Tuition is free. Every session is recorded. Miss one, or want a session from an earlier semester? Ask when you sign up and we'll send it over. Every session is pre-approved for 1 CRM credit from the Institute of Certified Records Managers, up to 5 a semester. There is no product pitch, no follow-up paywall, and no certification fee.
Five sessions on the records side of AI: getting your records into one place, how AI categorizes them, the metadata it pulls, what it changes about FOIA, and why the records you already keep are the asset. Tuesdays at 2:00 PM ET, one hour each, on Zoom. Free, each class stands on its own, and the recording goes to everyone who registers.
Where your records actually live, what connectors can reach, how infrastructure silently deletes them, and what leaves your boundary when AI reads a record.
How AI maps records to your GRS or RCS schedule, why filing location doesn't matter, what accuracy to expect, and why schedule descriptions become the thing you maintain.
AI fills in creator, date, identifier, and schedule on arrival, what that metadata then drives, how uncertain records are handled, and how to test accuracy before you rely on it.
Search and release. What semantic search adds over keywords, why retrieval must respect the asker's permissions, and how AI delivers redactions with the exemption, test, and authority attached.
AI projects run on records you already keep. Which series each needs, why schedules that assume records lose value are getting harder to defend, and what a governed alternative to public chat tools requires.
Previous semester, Spring 2026. Authorities & Accountability · Scheduling & Retention · Electronic Records Operations · Defensible Disposition · RM Connected. Recordings on request: ask for a copy.
Shannon Heim and Ray Davis have run RMU together across most of its 23 semesters. They moderate, they teach, and they curate the slate of co-leads each semester.
Host of Records Management University for over six years. Volunteer since 2014. Has spent more than a decade creating and delivering content that helps records professionals navigate the field. Also the illustrator behind RMU's hand-drawn educational materials, including the ones on this page.
Records management veteran with over 20 years of experience. Long-time ARMA member who served as Regional Vice President. Has presented at dozens of webinars and conferences. Returning RMU instructor.
RMU is older than most of the records platforms it talks about. Twelve years of it: Spring 2014 through Fall 2026, and still compounding.
What people usually ask before joining RMU. Still unanswered? Ask on the sign-up form below and someone on the team will reply.
Skip to the sign-upRMU is a webinar series curated to educate professionals on every facet of records management, from foundational concepts to advanced practice. Topics include compliance, digital transformation, industry best practices, and real-world case studies. Fall 2026 is the program's first semester devoted entirely to AI and records.
The goal is actionable knowledge that transcends theory, so participants can navigate records management in their own programs.
Records managers, information governance professionals, compliance officers, IT managers, agency General Counsel staff, and anyone aiming to deepen their records management knowledge.
Fall 2026 kicks off Tuesday, September 22 and runs every other Tuesday at 2:00 PM ET through December 1, with a break for the weeks of Election Day and Veterans Day. Registration is open now. RMU runs Spring and Fall every year.
No. RMU is entirely free to attend. There is no certification fee, no membership tier, no follow-up paywall. Sessions still carry credit: each one is pre-approved for 1 CRM credit from the Institute of Certified Records Managers, up to 5 per semester, and the units can also be applied toward an ARMA IGP or an AIIM CIP.
No. Sessions are taught by working practitioners and cover the work, not tooling. Feith research is cited where it is relevant, the same as any other source. There is no product pitch and no follow-up gate.
Yes. Every RMU session is recorded, and live attendees receive the recording by email afterward. Missed a session, or want one from an earlier semester? Ask on the sign-up form below and we'll send you what we have.
A stable internet connection and the Zoom client. RMU recommends testing the application prior to the event to confirm everything works smoothly.
Often, yes. There's no self-serve library to browse, but we keep recordings from past semesters and we're glad to share them, free. Tell us the topic or semester you're after on the sign-up form below and we'll send the recording if we have it.
