August 20, 2007 A Stanly Community College faculty member recently spent two weeks conducting IT training at the National University of Rwanda in Africa. Jeff Drake, SCC Network System Administrator, completed the trip from July 27 until August 13, 2007. “At the request of Cisco's Network Training Academy and the National University of Rwanda, I went to train instructors from the National University of Rwanda and two other technical training facilities,” said Drake.
The training took place on the campus of the National University of Rwanda in the city of Butare in Southwest Rwanda. There were twenty-two students in the training, and it covered networking and wireless networking fundamentals and the basics of Windows 2003 server management
and Linux server management.
“This was a great opportunity to meet and provide training to a highly motivated group of fellow IT trainers and support personnel. They routinely invested twelve or more hours per day to the training. Rwanda’s President has taken several innovative steps to develop partnerships with Cisco, Google, Microsoft, and other U.S. Corporations to grow Rwanda’s developing economy; because of this, there is an increasing interest and demand for IT Training,” added Drake.
SCC President Dr. Michael Taylor added, “While this was an opportunity out of the usual, it did afford Jeff a chance to expand his own experiences and that can only help our students back on this campus. All of our efforts over the last few years where we have offered classes in other states and even nations have been designed to provide our faculty with more expertise that would allow them to do a better job of providing quality instruction to our students in the county and region.”
SCC offers a degree, diploma, and certificate in Network Technology. For more information, call (704) 982-0121 or visit our website at www.stanly.edu.
August 20, 2007 A Stanly Community College faculty member recently spent two weeks conducting IT training at the National University of Rwanda in Africa. Jeff Drake, SCC Network System Administrator, completed the trip from July 27 until August 13, 2007. “At the request of Cisco's Network Training Academy and the National University of Rwanda, I went to train instructors from the National University of Rwanda and two other technical training facilities,” said Drake.
The training took place on the campus of the National University of Rwanda in the city of Butare in Southwest Rwanda. There were twenty-two students in the training, and it covered networking and wireless networking fundamentals and the basics of Windows 2003 server management
and Linux server management.
“This was a great opportunity to meet and provide training to a highly motivated group of fellow IT trainers and support personnel. They routinely invested twelve or more hours per day to the training. Rwanda’s President has taken several innovative steps to develop partnerships with Cisco, Google, Microsoft, and other U.S. Corporations to grow Rwanda’s developing economy; because of this, there is an increasing interest and demand for IT Training,” added Drake.
SCC President Dr. Michael Taylor added, “While this was an opportunity out of the usual, it did afford Jeff a chance to expand his own experiences and that can only help our students back on this campus. All of our efforts over the last few years where we have offered classes in other states and even nations have been designed to provide our faculty with more expertise that would allow them to do a better job of providing quality instruction to our students in the county and region.”
SCC offers a degree, diploma, and certificate in Network Technology. For more information, call (704) 982-0121 or visit our website at www.stanly.edu.