Upper Division Skill Standards

两年制大学的信息技术（IT）课程为IT劳动力提供了合格的人员。然而，企业的招聘偏好倾向于那些在几乎所有领域都拥有四年制学位，并拥有两年制大学或两年制大学学位的IT证书或课程以及丰富经验的人。目前的学位课程强调销售和人事管理等业务领域，而不是基于标准的先进技术技能。本项目调查在何种程度上存在的工业支持四年制学位的IT是符合技能标准。制订资讯科技高级组别的技能标准，是为了把那些在甄选、安排和晋升资讯科技人员时十分重要的技术和非技术因素，编成法例。企业系统分析和集成，编程，技术写作和数据库开发和管理的集群强调。该项目还调查了两年制和四年制学院之间传统衔接模式的结构和使用方面的最佳做法，并制定了一个框架，以提供基于标准的高等技术学位。

Information Technology (IT) programs in two-year colleges have provided personnel qualified for the IT workforce. Yet corporate hiring preferences favor those with four-year degrees in almost any field combined with IT certificates or courses at the two-year college or two-year college degrees and much experience. Present articulated degree programs emphasize business fields such as sales and personnel supervision rather than advanced standards-based technical skills. This project investigates the extent to which industrial support exists for four-year degrees in IT that are consistent with skill standards. Upper division skill standards in IT are developed to codify those technical and non-technical elements that are important in the selection, placement and promotion of IT workers. The clusters of Enterprise System Analysis and Integration, Programming, Technical Writing and Database Development and Administration are emphasized. The project also investigates best practices in the structure and use of conventional articulation models between two-year and four-year colleges and the development of a framework for offering standards-based upper division technology degrees.