We can respond quickly to student and employer needs. We saw the need. She said similar courses in different divisions sometimes had different names and courses with similar names sometimes taught different things. Now, IT course names and content are coordinated and advising is centralized. Getting to this point wasn't easy.
Education has a lot of traditions.
It's very territorial. Ms. Donley wanted IT consolidated in her business technology division where computer sciences have been taught. That took a lot of negotiation and letting go. However, linking IT to engineering technology promised greater funding, she speculated. Many of the 1,177 IT majors enrolled this term were there before, but the new approach is eliciting interest from an even larger number of prospects, spokesman Bruce Stoecklin said.