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(Click image to see full size) See narrative on the link under meeting notes labeled, "Dear Speakers...2.27.08"

Peter Huber, writing in the latest edition of Forbes, outlines five investment themes that (my interpretation) will absolutely require more, not fewer, workers with broad and deep understanding of the tools that enable the technology development. Investors don't necessarily care where those workers come from, but we should. Transforming the menu we place in the educational cafeteria is our challenge and must be our mission.

"...Prosperity and profit still depend, above all, on human ingenuity... No serious student of science technology can be anything but bullish about the long-term prospects for profit and growth in the ingenuity-driven economy." See the complete (1 page) article.

Please see the link to the right entitled "CPATH Milestones" or click this link

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dm5k5cm_26g5bsffcn

for a description of the focus of our CPATH Grant group. We invite your comments.

CPATH Grant Steering Committee

Please carefully note the following meeting dates. There have been a few changes:

Date.............Location.................Time.......Details

March 7, 2008...Folsom Lake College...10AM....Symposium Planning
March 14, 2008...Folsom Lake College..10AM..Panelists, facilitators

March 28, 2008...SYMPOSIUM at Intel...7AM Registration

April 14, 2008.....Folsom Lake College....3PM to 5PM (Please note time)
April 25, 2008....Sacramento State.........10AM (Please note location)
May 9, 2008.......Folsom Lake College....10AM
May 16, 2008.....Folsom Lake College....10AM
May 23, 2008.....Folsom Lake College....8AM to 12 CPATH NSF Proposal

http://www.bused.org/index.html

http://www.bused.org/main.html

"This document outlines State standards for information technology career paths offered in California Community Colleges. You may find it helpful in your thinking on curriculum and programatic issues."

CTE = Career Technical Educational, aka vocational education

Thanks for investigating!

Gary for the CPATH Group

This Friday, February 8, we will meet as usual in room 08 (right next to my office), to clarify the roles of speakers, panelists and group facilitators, with the result a written schematic for how it will all flow together.

See the previous post for the CPATH “boxes” diagram with a few revisions. Please take a look and see if it matches what we talked about last Friday.

For the latest update on Symposium Planning, see the minutes in the link to the right under Meeting Notes for Advisory Board Meeting 2.1.08.

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