IT Futures Summit at Microsoft

Pathways to IT Applied Baccalaureate Degrees for Washington State Students:

IT Programs of Study & Common Courses

Friday, June 7, 2013, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, Washington

8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Registration & Breakfast

9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Welcome

• Introductions
• Washington State proposed Applied Baccalaureate Degrees in Information Technology
• Potential Department of Labor grant opportunity

10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Working Groups

• Review of Common Courses & Core IT Competencies: Programming I & II, Data Structures (developed July 2012)
• Develop two new Common Courses: Networking and Database Development/Design
• Development of pathways to IT baccalaureate programs

12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Lunch, networking

• Presentation: Washington State’s IT Industry Sector: The Need for Multiple IT Academic and Career Pathways & Baccalaureate Degrees

1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Industry-Faculty Round Tables

• Solicitation of input/expertise from IT industry professionals for current, in-development, and proposed IT baccalaureate degrees

2:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Secondary IT Education

• What secondary IT courses and general education courses might be aligned with IT programs of study?

3:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Review of day’s progress

• Next steps
• Travel reimbursement/forms

Note: Agenda subject to change