BPC-A: Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE)
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Professional Development |
| Discipline(s): |
Computer Engineering Computer Science Computing Diversity Information Systems Information Technology Software Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
BPC - NSF Programs |
| Learning Resource Type: |
Community - General |
| Media Type: |
Audio |
| Author(s): |
Deborah Boisvert Jane Fountain Lori Clarke Priscilla Grocer Renee Fall Rick Adrion |
| Description: | The Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE) is a statewide alliance with a mission to address underrepresentation in Massachusetts' innovation economy. Partnering with 15 public higher education institutions organized in four geographic regions, CAITE focuses on community colleges that serve as gateways to careers and further higher education for underserved populations. CAITE's programs include outreach and pathways activities in collaboration with initiatives focused on IT education and STEM pipeline issues. CAITE works closely with many of the CISE BPC Alliances and with the regional LSAMP and EGEP alliances. |
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| Keywords: | BPC-NSF BPC-A community college recruitment retention programs reviewed |
| Is Component of: |
BPC-A: NSF Alliances for Broadening Participation in Computing |
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Small class size combined with integrated labs and active learning led to increased retention, learning, and satisfaction. Strategies and interventions: The project will pilot a series of outreach programs supported by educational pathways in four regions (one rural, two suburban, and one urban). The project includes work with high school teachers, staff, and counselors (http://www.takeitgoanywhere.org/index.html). CAITE identifies best practices and disseminates, deploys, extends and institutionalizes these best practices statewide and nationally. Community colleges are the centerpiece of CAITE because of the central role they play in reaching out to underserved populations and in serving as a gateway to careers and further higher education. This project builds a broad alliance based on its leadership in and partnership with the Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative (CITI), the Boston Area Advanced Technological Education Center (BATEC), regional Louis Stokes Alliances and NSF EGEP programs, and other partnerships and initiatives focused on information technology education and STEM pipeline issues. |
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Unknown |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.caite.info/ |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
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