|
California Phase 3 ICT Report Released
 This quarter, MPICT released its Phase 3 California ICT
Environmental Scan, which is focused on input to ICT
educational programs. Download the report free at
http://www.mpict.org/ict_study_phase3.html.
In the information, knowledge and innovation economies of
the 21st century, all kinds of organizations and individuals
increasingly depend on computer, information and
communications technologies for productivity, efficiency,
connectivity and growth.
The U.S. still has a mostly fragmented view of the
technology, industry and occupational clusters related to
these rapidly emerging, evolving and converging fields. Much
of the rest of the world collects and analyzes data for one
large, umbrella cluster, a superset term capturing all of
these inter-related and
interdependent fields: Information and Communications
Technologies (ICT).
Click here for full article
> |
California Community College ICT Collaborative
 Responding to the kinds of needs detailed in MPICT’s Phase 3
report, the California Community College (CCC) Chancellor’s
Office has awarded the MPICT team a grant to establish a
statewide community college collaborative dedicated to
improving community college ICT education in California.
This new California Community College ICT Collaborative,
funded indirectly with Federal Perkins Title 1B funds, will
gather representatives of each of the 10 California
Community College Regions and work to improve ICT education
at all 112 of California’s community colleges. California
community colleges are the largest higher educational system
in the U.S., so this is difficult but badly needed and
impactful work.
Click here for full article
> |
Inside This
Issue:
|
New UC Santa Cruz Networking & Digital Technology Degree
 On September 7th, 2011, the University of California - Santa
Cruz announced a new degree major: Bachelor of Arts in
Networking and Digital Technology. This new B.A. degree
creates new options for ICT students, in addition to current
opportunities in more traditional UCSC Engineering, Computer
Science and Computer Engineering programs.
This is very exciting!
Click here for full article
> |
