Convergence Technology Center

根据其业务咨询委员会的建议和建议，融合技术中心确定了使用在一个安全网络上结合语音、视频、数据和图像的系统的技术人员所需的知识和技能。该中心预测了地区和当地工业的招聘需求，提高了对职业机会的认识，并开发了培训400多名教师和2000多名学生的课程。该中心开始指导其他社区学院发展融合技术项目。该中心现在将其工作扩展到其他18所社区学院。新的活动包括招募和留住目前在技术劳动力中代表性不足的西班牙裔学生。课程和专业发展扩展到包括绿色信息技术，特别是因为它涉及到减少技术的能源消耗。由外部评估人员进行的评估调查了课程的有效性，包括混合课程，专业发展的影响，项目中少数民族学生的增加以及受指导学院的变化。

With the advice and recommendations of its Business Advisory Council, the Convergence Technology Center determined the knowledge and skills required by technicians who work with systems that combine voice, video, data, and images over one secure network. The Center forecasted the hiring needs of regional and local industry and created awareness of the career opportunities and developed curriculum to educate over 400 faculty and 2000 students. The Center began to mentor other community colleges developing convergence technology programs. The Center now extends its work to reach 18 other community colleges. The new activities include recruiting and retaining especially Hispanic students presently underrepresented in the technology workforce. The curriculum and professional development is expanded to include Green information technology especially as it relates to decreasing the energy consumption of technology. The evaluation conducted by an external evaluator investigates the effectiveness of the curriculum, including hybrid courses, the impact of the professional development, the increase in the minority students in the program, and the changes in the mentored colleges.