... increase the labor pool for IT (Skinner, 2000, p. 52-5). The National IT Workforce Convocation, the federal government, and academia held the first National Information Technology Workforce convention January 2000. Leadership from Information Technology Association of America, the U. S. Commerce, and U. S. Department of Education ... and reiterated the need for public/private partnerships to address the issue. Reports from task forces described the effects of poor math and science competencies among students, the "nerd- image often associated with IT jobs, groups not well represented in t...

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... oriented. But in networking, knowledge of both software (networking technologies) and hardware are needed. There are hundreds of technologies used in networking. From filtering IP traffic to allowing different devices to communicate, each process has it's own designated technology. Network Professionals are responsible for installing, configuring, and operating Local Area Networks (LAN), Wide Area Networks (WAN), and remote ... NOS). Network operating systems such as UNIX were designed from the beginning to support networking. In its early forms, Windows did not support networking, so No...

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... oriented. But in networking, knowledge of both software (networking technologies) and hardware are needed. There are hundreds of technologies used in networking. From filtering IP traffic to allowing different devices to communicate, each process has it's own designated technology. Network Professionals are responsible for installing, configuring, and operating Local Area Networks (LAN), Wide Area Networks (WAN), and remote ... NOS). Network operating systems such as UNIX were designed from the beginning to support networking. In its early forms, Windows did not support networking, so No...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate