IS Graduation 2010 May 24, 2010
Posted by afoote in : Information Systems , trackbackGraduation at Stevenson was May 21 at 3:00pm for the Information Systems majors. It gives us an opportunity to look back at the last four years and see all the changes that have occurred. One of the major changes that we are seeing is the addition of the forensic program. There are a number of our graduates that are getting opportunities in this field and graduates in the software design and networking programs are also getting opportunities with some of those same organizations. Mr. Ken Snyder as department chairman, knew what he was doing when he introduced that program into the IS major. Next year we are introducing the E-Commerce program into the IS major and it should have the same positive results. Although there has been an economic turndown over the past few years, we are still seeing most of our IS graduates finding career opportunities in the Baltimore-Washington area. As a matter of fact some of the graduates are looking at multiple opportunities. From what I am hearing, the Career Services department has opportunities for our IS graduates that are going unfilled. Maybe the economy is coming back or maybe we are producing graduates that have the skills that organizations need here in the Baltimore-Washington area.
Again this year in my IS481 course I have my students watch Steve Jobs graduation speech at Stanford in June 2005. Although Mr. Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia was a wonderful speaker at this year’s Stevenson graduation, there is something special about Steve Jobs’ speech. Steve’s concluding remarks in the speech are taken from the final edition of the Whole Earth Catalog. That quote is very relevant for our 2010 graduates – “Stay Hunger, Stay Foolish”.
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