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Off-shoring, Enrollments and Curriculum

Explore the challenges of the shifting job market and declining enrollments in computer science programs. Discover the importance of integrating business skills and cross-disciplinary knowledge into the curriculum.

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Off-shoring, Enrollments and Curriculum

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  1. Off-shoring, Enrollments and Curriculum Stu Zweben Assoc. Dean, Acad. Affairs and Admin. College of Engineering The Ohio State Univesity

  2. Undergraduate Enrollment Swings Cut in half or more from peak enrollments

  3. Doctoral Grad Migration • Abroad

  4. To industry and non-Ph.D.-granting CS/CE departments

  5. Job Market • Shocked in 2000-2001 by • Dot-com crash • Companies went out of business • Companies down-sized • Lots of experienced IT workers without jobs • Huge graduating classes • Doubled from four years earlier • Followed by additional years of large classes • Perfect storm relative to job availability • Needed a few years to recover

  6. Rebounding in last two years • Reported more IT jobs today than during dot-com boom • Reduction in size of graduating classes • More stable industrial situation

  7. Curriculum Concerns • Basic software development • Staple of historical entry level jobs • Increasing off-shoring and other outsourcing • More creative parts of systems development less prone to outsourcing? • Includes end-user interfacing (note rise in IT programs) • Includes enterprise-level skills • But other countries moving higher up the food chain • Who will teach these skills? • Business skills in demand • Suggests IS programs are useful • But they’ve also declined considerably • Who will teach them? • Cross-disciplinary skills in demand • More than just some courses from CS and some from another discipline • Who will teach them?

  8. What should education do? There’s not a singular answer • Include integrative, enterprise, systems-level activity • Include business acumen (as part of gen. ed. if you can do it) • Understanding of how business works • Making business case for technical ideas • Link technical solutions to business problem • Managing (technical) projects • Create more inter-disciplinary opportunities • Get instructional help to teach this stuff • Partner with business schools & other parts of campus • Have enlightened teaching models to support these partnerships • Hire full-time faculty with industry experience for long-term (“clinical” or “practice” faculty) • Market your programs (computing still integral to almost any enterprise)

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