KITCenter -- Years 5-7 Initiatives

由肯塔基州社区和技术学院系统（KCTCS）支持的肯塔基州信息技术中心是英联邦所有社区和技术学院的区域中心。 目标包括通过实体和虚拟的专业发展研讨会提高高中、社区和技术学院IT教师的专业知识;增加企业、政府和行业的支持和参与;提高学生的入学率和完成率。 KITCenter建立在先前NSF支持下开发的实践基础上，教育能够适应课程，交付方法和市场需求变化的高技能教育工作者，从业者和技术人员。 与区域工业有着密切的联系。 在中学和两年制大学一级的课程是响应和适应劳动力的IT需求，使毕业生获得技术人员劳动力所需的IT技能和理解。 高中和两年制大学的教师获得提供这种教育的专门知识。 该中心提供新兴技术的指导，如健康信息学，安全和地理信息系统。 KCTCS的支持是可持续性的一个组成部分。

The Kentucky Information Technology Center, supported by the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS), is a regional center of all of the community and technical colleges in the Commonwealth. The goals include enhancing the expertise of high school, community and technical college IT faculty through professional development workshops, both physical and virtual; increasing the support and participation of business, government and industry; and increasing the enrollment and completion rate of students. The KITCenter builds upon practices developed under prior NSF support, to educate highly skilled educators, practitioners and technicians capable of adapting to changes in curriculum, delivery methods and market demands. Strong connections are made to the regional industry. Curricula at the secondary and two-year college level are responsive and adaptive to the IT needs of the workforce so that the graduates obtain the IT skills and understandings needed by technician workforce. Faculty in high schools and two-year colleges obtain the expertise to provide that education. The Center provides instruction in emerging technologies such as health informatics, security and GIS. The support of the KCTCS is an integral part of the sustainability.