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CoE for Allied Health Director Position Opening

The Center of Excellence for Allied Health, hosted at Yakima Valley Community College, has the director position open.

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STEM Summit: Emerging & Innovative Trends for Tomorrow’s Classroom

Video from the STEM Summit will be posted April 2011. You can watch Dr. Arthur Benjamin’s keynote presentation, educators and industry professionals presentations and panel sessions. STEM best practices and curricular modules will be posted to the website by the end of March 2011.

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2010 IT Futures Summit Presentations

Select 2010 IT Futures Summit PowerPoint presentations are now available for viewing: “Looking Ahead”, Keynote John Perera, Microsoft; “Web 2.0 Technologies for Your Classroom”, Jean Kent; “Online Collaborations: SharePoint 2010, Office Web Apps, Web Services”; “Shared Source, Windows Academic and Faculty Curriculum Resources: Supporting Teaching and Research World-Wide”, Arkady Retik, Microsoft, “Productivity in the Age of Information Overload: Office 2010″, Scott Kennedy

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Collaborations with State Colleges Move Computer Science Programs Ahead

The Center of Excellence for Information and Computing Technology (CoE for ICT) works with multiple Washington State Community and Technical Colleges to align program degrees and certificates to current workplace technical knowledge and skills valued by today’s employers. The Center’s collaborative consulting and review services include analyzing current course content, with real-time ICT industry professionals insight into current and projected workforce demand. The Center ensures thoughtful, comprehensive program reviews, curriculum audits, and instructional redesigns that are supported by a team of experts with specialized, higher post graduate degrees in education, curriculum design, and a keen understanding of higher education policy and budgetary needs. Our consulting body includes networking, security, systems and database administration, web development and design, and software development and programming professionals with five, plus years of experience.

The Center welcomes solicitations for information and computing technology (ICT) college program (degree/certificate) reviews, redesigns, and audits.

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Centers of Excellence High Impact Report

A New Decade for New Growth: Ensuring a Better Workforce for Tomorrow
Highlights focus on system support, value, and the savings the eleven Centers provides to the CTC system, educators, faculty, and students. It was presented at the Workforce Education Council’s quarterly meeting in Vancouver, Washington on February 11, 2010. Continue reading for details and a report download.

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Centers of Excellence

Developing partnerships among business, industry and education to meet the future needs of Washington State.