--- Forwarded Message from Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:53:59 -0500 (CDT) >From: Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: technology worker shortage? (TBob) How important is technology to the enterprise of American Education and to the enterprises which hire our students? We know that during a period between 1990 and 1996, 5% fewer high-tech degrees were granted by US universities than in the same-length period before. Only 50% of our current high tech degrees are granted to American citizens. I believe also that we have raised the annual cap on "H1-B" work visas, and I believe that 45 percent of the visas go to workers in computer-related fields. There is an interesting article in this week's Chronicle of Higher Edication: Florence Olsen, "Report on Supply of Technology Workers Includes Recommendations for Colleges," CHE XLV 41 (June 18, 1999): A29. The article is a summary of several reports, but the focus is on one which is Available through the Association of Computing Research (by writing to them...). What the author does not tell you as that the report is directly available through the association's web site: Association of Computing Research http://www.acr.org Those of you who are lucky enough to be working in positions where train faculty to use technology and help students to learn something through the use of technology, are very important people. Now if you feel that your institution could use another technologically enabled person (though I still can't program java), then consider hiring me...cause I'm looking. TBob Bob Peckham Director, The Globe-Gate Project Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages Univ. of Tennessee-Martin Martin, TN 38238 USA e-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html CV: http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/tbobcv.html