Currently, the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office has completed two of three cooperative purchase initiatives, with one in progress.
All initiatives are voluntary, but provide extremely good value for the colleges.
First, we are very proud to announce an arrangement with NETg Computer Based Training Software. This initiative provides a one year license for approximately 450 computer based training courses in such topics as Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Word 97, etc, including many technical courses. This fully qualifies for expenditure under our new staff development for technology funds which were recently released. The software will be updated on a regular basis during the year and will be installed on the CCC 4CNet for distribution also. And finally, we are currently in the bid stage of an initiative for the cooperative purchase of PC desktop and laptop computers, which is being coordinated through Yuba College.