IT WORK FORCE GAP LOOMING

Team Bradley Applicant Newsletter: "IT WORK FORCE GAP LOOMING
By Stan Gibson
December 5, 2005
Opinion: Now that students are avoiding IT studies like the plague, it's not only safe to study IT again, it's also the smart thing to do.

Nerds, apparently, travel in herds. What else could explain the fact that IT has gone from being, so it seemed, the only worthwhile occupation for any human being—circa 1999, at the maximum expansion of the dot-com bubble—to a profession less popular than, say, dogcatcher, circa now.

But when everyone else is caught up in a lemming rush, it often makes sense to head in the opposite direction. Now that students are avoiding IT studies like the plague, it's not only safe to study IT again, it's also the smart thing to do. That, at least, is according to one of the most eminent professors in the field of IT education, John Rockart of MIT.

'There is a drop in IT enrollments. We are not turning out enough people to meet the needs,' said Rockart during a panel discussion titled 'The Changing IT Workforce' at the recent Forrester Research Executive Strategy Forum in Boston. From the maximum point of the dot-com bubble, Washington State University's IT enrollment is down 60 percent; the University of Virginia's is down 50 percent, said Rockart.

Why are students blind to this golden opportunity? Two rea"

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When did the A to F grading system start?

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When did the A to F grading system start? And what happened to E?
JJ
Glendale, California
Dear JJ:
An excellent question and one we thought we could answer in a flash. Not so. After much digging, we found an article in The Washington Post that states the first letter grade given in the United States was a 'B' at Harvard University in 1883.

Prior to that time and up to about 1900, most institutions of higher learning used the numeric system (0-100) for grading. According to the Georgia State University web site, from about 1900 to the 1960s, colleges and universities became more general in grading. Hence, the letter-grade system became popular.

Georgia State University surveyed 1,395 two-year colleges, four-year colleges, and universities, and found 89.8% use the letter-grading system with a tendency to add plus or minus.

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