Upper Division Skill Standards

两年制大学的信息技术（IT）课程为IT行业提供了合格的人才。然而，企业招聘倾向于那些拥有几乎任何领域的四年制学位，再加上IT证书或两年制大学课程或两年制大学学位以及丰富经验的人。目前明确的学位课程强调商业领域，如销售和人事管理，而不是先进的标准为基础的技术技能。这个项目调查了与技能标准一致的IT四年制学位的工业支持存在的程度。制定信息技术高级部门技能标准是为了将那些在选择、安置和提升信息技术工作者方面很重要的技术和非技术因素编纂成法典。强调企业系统分析与集成、编程、技术写作和数据库开发与管理的集群。该项目还研究了两年制和四年制大学之间传统衔接模式的结构和使用的最佳实践，以及提供基于标准的高级技术学位的框架的发展。

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.