The U.S. Department of Labor gave Virginia State...
The U.S. Department of Labor gave Virginia State University a $3.25 million grant to help develop a training program for the wireless workforce of the future, with $750,000 set aside for PCIA to help create “nationally recognized competencies and credentials…
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in the field of wireless infrastructure deployment,” PCIA said Monday in a news release. The grant will help VSU, an historically black university, “strengthen a new program aimed at building a network of colleges to train students for high-wage, high-skilled careers in wireless infrastructure,” PCIA said (http://bit.ly/10fxY8i). The grant runs through 2018, PCIA said. The department announced $450 million worth of “job-driven training grants” Monday, including the award to VSU (http://1.usa.gov/1qOZGhd). The administration also unveiled 25 grants for cybersecurity and IT-centric job training. The cybersecurity and IT grants include $15 million to the Maryland Cyber-Technology Job Pathways Consortium, which will fund an accelerated two-year degree program, virtual internships and job planning, the White House said. The programs funded by the 25 grants will “alleviate the projected national shortage of IT workers,” the White House said, noting a Bureau of Labor Statistics estimate of only 400,000 computer science graduates by 2020 to fill 1.4 million projected additional IT jobs (http://1.usa.gov/1vrEpQ6).