IBM working with Sac State on new IT courses
Sacramento Business Journal
Researchers with IBM are working with five campuses, including California State University Sacramento, to develop new courses to address growing needs in information technology, the company announced Monday.
In all, four new courses will be developed by the schools and personnel from the Silicon Valley Lab of International Business Machines Corp., the Armonk, N.Y.-based computer giant.
The first course is rolling out this fall for several dozen students at San Jose State University, and is also being taught at Tongii University in Shanghai, China, IBM said in a news release. It and others will follow starting over the winter and next year at Sacramento State, California State University Long Beach and Illinois State University in Normal, Ill.
The courses are intended to help produce more qualified candidates for jobs requiring skills in mainframe computing -- specifically, in this case, IBM systems and DB2 and database applications.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) cited data from labor analysis firm SkillPROOF that found the average number of job openings for IT professionals in California has grown by 60 percent since 2004. That amounts, the company said, to more than 16,000 jobs.
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