Re: “WA college students flock to laptop science, AI boosts attract” [Nov. 22, Education Lab]:
The demand for the favored and important diploma in laptop science won’t abate anytime quickly. Fortuitously, a key resolution to the necessity for added laptop science schooling slots is correct in entrance of us, and The Seattle Occasions report uncared for to say it.
College students, households and policymakers ought to contemplate the pipeline of laptop science expertise coming from the non-public, non-profit faculties and universities all through Washington. Throughout Impartial Faculties of Washington member campuses, for instance, greater than 8,000 college students graduate with bachelor’s and superior levels annually, and about 500 baccalaureate and grasp’s levels and levels in laptop science are awarded yearly. Half of the scholars enrolled at Impartial Faculties of Washington’s member campuses determine as Black, Native American or college students of shade.
These college students are properly supported with scholarships and different help, however the Legislature ought to design and fund incentive applications to make it much more doable for Washingtonians to enroll in a non-public, non-profit faculty or college. These campuses are an vital a part of the answer to lifting our economies and communities throughout the state.
Terri Standish-Kuon, Seattle, President and CEO, Impartial Faculties of Washington