Texas State University is helping Information Technology students find local jobs after they graduate. Carlos Ibarra has more in this Bobcat Update.
Texas State has been named to the White House's Tech-Hire Initiative, a program designed to train and develop a home-grown information technology workforce. The university -- in partnership with Workforce Solutions, the City of Austin, and the Greater San Marcos Partnership -- will use this initiative to fill approximately eight-thousand information technology jobs in Central Texas.
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Texas State is extending the program to the San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District. University officials are coordinating with the high schools to provide students with the training they need to earn a certificate that can be used for college credit at Texas State.
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This news comes two months after the university announced the addition of the Digital Media Innovation major to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The D-M-I degree focuses on the demand for graduates who possess technology expertise and strong communication skills. Such skills are needed in jobs like news application developers, data and social media analysts and mobile experience producers.
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The new degree is scheduled to launch this fall, pending final approval by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. For Bobcat Update, I'm Carlos Ibarra.
Bobcat Update, a student-produced newscast recapping events at Texas State University, and is available for viewing on YouTube.
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