Missouri State University and IBM officials announced that the university has joined IBM’’s Academic Initiative to better prepare students to be (36)________leaders in technology and business.
The partnership will (37)________ students with access to a wide range of free IBM software, hardware and services resources—valued at $5 million.
IBM Academic Initiative is a (38)________that offers university faculty and students a host of educational (39)________to encourage the use of open standards technologies. By joining this initiative, universities receive free (40)________to IBM software, free course material, training and curriculum development and (41)________hardware. IBM is currently working with more than 1,900 universities, 11,000 (42)________members and 450,000 students around the world to promote open source and open standards.
The US Department of Labor reports an (43)________opportunity exists in all technological fields.
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And, that one out of every four jobs in this decade will be in IT. It notes, however, that colleges and universities will have to quadruple (使成四倍) their number of graduates by 2008 in order to meet this demand.
"With the support of IBM’’s Academic Initiative, (45)________________," said a Professor. "The increased global competition in the technology sector is encouraging national universities to take a more proactive approach to developing technology talent. At Missouri State, (46)________________.