Great Summer 2010 Faculty Development Week!
June 21-25, 2010, MPICT held its 2nd annual Summer Faculty
Development Week at the City College of San Francisco Ocean
Campus. 72 faculty members from ICT related programs at 31
community colleges in four states (California, Oregon,
Nevada and Hawaii) attended. Additionally, 8 community
college institutional IT managers attended MPICT’s first IT
Managers Workshop.
Faculty week attendees networking during lunch
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Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People: An Untapped Resource for
Employment in ICT
An estimated 4 million working age people in the U.S. are
deaf or hard of hearing (D/HoH). In the most recent study by
the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for
Education Statistics (2007-08), of D/HoH individuals in the
labor force, 15.5% were employed in STEM occupations
(compared to 17.9% of individuals who are hearing). However,
there were major differences in the types of STEM positions
in which the two groups were employed. A higher percentage
of hearing individuals were working in computer and medical
fields, while D/HoH individuals were working in
construction, mechanical and agricultural areas.
Although underemployed compared to their hearing peers, with
appropriate job skills and access to resources, D/HoH
individuals represent a significant pool of potential
employees in more highly skilled STEM fields, including ICT!
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