Ball State University. Muncie, IN 47306. Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action . Ball State University doesn t resemble the dreams a group of Irish women had about America before they came here for a computer training courses.
Skyscrapers are nowhere to be found and the night life is nothing close to what they imagined.
But, for 14 women participating in a six-week computer networking certification course, hard work is still hard work in both Ireland and America. It s been a brilliant opportunity and a lot of work. I ve learned loads about IT and computers. The Irish government provided funding for the training as part of an initiative to reduce unemployment and attract high tech firms to the island nation. Ireland s current high-tech boom started in the late 1980s, when the country s highly educated workforce, low wages and favorable tax rates attracted American multinationals.