Deborah Kobes and Joseph Deegan in "Google’s Growing IT Certificate"

It’s not often that a new program like this emerges at this scale and with this backing.

Deborah Kobes, director at JFF, and Joseph Deegan, senior program manager at JFF, discuss how community colleges are getting involved with the Google IT Support Certificate—a Coursera program built to create a pipeline of diverse applicants for entry-level IT jobs.

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This collaboration with Google is an opportunity for JFF to leverage its extensive expertise in working with community colleges.

A student who enrolls in the certificate on their own would watch the Coursera videos and complete the assessments in the platform independently, without supplemental instruction and/or support from a college.

Deborah Kobes and Joseph Deegan in "Google’s Growing IT Certificate"

Published jun. 14, 2019

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