DMACC to offer IT certificate designed for women
LIFT IOWA STAFF Sep 8, 2015 | 6:47 pm
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269 wordsAll Latest News, Education, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Lift IOWADes Moines Area Community College will offer a new accelerated certificate program in an effort to attract more diversity into the information technology profession.
The Java Application Developer Certificate is part of a collaborative initiative involving DMACC and Central Iowa IT employers. The curriculum, called Diversity in Application Development (DIAD), is designed by women and intended for female students.
The DIAD program begins Sept. 11 and runs through April 2016.
According to a study published by the National Center for Women and Information Technology, women hold only 26 percent of professional computing positions. In response, DMACC — led by Dean of Business Management and Information Technology MD Isley — started a relationship with a group of Central Iowa employers to address the shortage and enable a new initiative to add more diversity to the IT profession.
The intent of the partnership is to focus on how education and business can work together to deliver a modern education. There are currently 14 women enrolled in the first course of DIAD, the $5,000 tuition fee primarily paid by their employers.
The classwork for the certificate will include four hours of weekly accelerated classroom instruction from experienced professionals and IT experts, a minimum of four hours of online instruction per week, guest speakers and industry panels, review of past material with Q&A time, and networking opportunities with local IT professionals.
Upon completion of the program, students will earn an accelerated DMACC Java Application Developer Certificate; gain applicable, practical and technical skills; and receive exam prep for the industry-approved Java SE Programmer certification.
More information on the program can be found on DMACC’s website.
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