Microsoft Summer IT Institute 2001 primary mission is to:
- Provide a year long continuum of community building events and activities amongst the Community and Technical College faculty membership statewide;
- Promote and increase face-to-face contact and online interaction amongst MSIT and Community and Technical College IT faculty members throughout the year;
- Increase the number of IT faculty participating in the high quality of IT training at MSIT;
- Grow and evolve the database of IT pedagogy of best practices;
- Continue to grow and evolve Community and Technical College IT faculty's link with the IT industry.
"Microsoft's goal in sponsoring this Institute is to help you, the IT faculty member, become more knowledgeable and effective at your institution. We know you face a lot of pressures and challenges in your job, and this week of training is aimed at giving you some of the tools to make your life easier and your work more effective."
Christopher E. Jones, Senior Program Manager, Community Affairs, Microsoft
"The work you do as an IT educator is crucially important to help meet the demand for IT workers, and we are grateful for your dedication to keeping pace with the rapid changes in IT education. Very few other fields require such a constant commitment to updating one's skills, as IT education does. The object of the Microsoft Summer Institute is to help you to get the knowledge you need to do your job well and provide a venue for you to share your best practices with your colleagues."
B. Jean Floten, President, Bellevue Community College
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