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The main purpose of the North Texas Regional Technology Consortium is to pull together the strengths of regional educational institutions and business and industry partners to improve Information Technology (IT) programs at community colleges; thereby increasing the quantity and quality of IT resources available to the workforce.
 
The NTRTC will act as a catalyst to collaboratively model alternative improved methods of doing business in higher education. In supporting the challenges of converging technologies, NTRTC will focus on technical education that meets the needs of the region for highly skilled, extremely adaptable and cross-trained technical workers.
 

Highlights of this program include:

  • A regional Educator to Educator Virtual Training Center that supports regularly scheduled and affordable technology training for community college and high school teachers;

  • Unique opportunities for IT students and faculty to gain hands-on experience with integrating a variety of information/communications technologies and equipment from multiple vendors. This will be accomplished through the creation of a Convergence Lab at CCCCD with remote accessibility to the consortium colleges and university;

  • The development of multiple certifications and at least one new associate degree program driven by the demands of converging technologies and security;

  • A partnership with the NWCET to insure the successful adaptation of existing curriculum to promote exchange of cutting-edge information;

  • New articulation agreements for high school to community college to four-year university for at least two IT career clusters;

  • The utilization of a remote technology lab to enhance on-line technical course instruction and expand the outreach to both the quantity and diversity of students;

  • The development of opportunities for the underserved population to learn converging technologies and the development of recruitment strategies for industry and colleges;

  • Measurements to determine the success of these programs including the satisfaction of students and employers;

  • Enhancement of industry advisory council working in conjunction with consortium to establish strategies on Convergence Lab usage and job skills validation.