🚀 go-pugleaf

Why that (Feb grant from Msft) was more than any grant item in the new
Federal Budget...  I did not see any item related to a direct grant for
internet education in the Budget.  I know a heap was spent on Internet2.

GC

On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:58:22 -0400 Donna Abernathy <dabernathy@ASTD.ORG>
writes:
>     U.S. GRANTS
>     The American Association of Community Colleges and Microsoft
>     Corporation are collaborating on a project that will help build
>IT
>     training programs in U.S. community colleges. It's called Working
>     Connections.
>
>     Microsoft will fund $7 million in cash grants over five years for
>     community colleges to develop IT curriculums, train faculty,
>recruit
>     disadvantaged people, and form partnerships with local
>businesses. The
>     project awarded grants totaling nearly $2.7 million to 13 schools
>in
>     February 1998. Microsoft is also supplying software grants to
>     participating colleges. For more information, go to
>     www.aacc.nche.edu/spcproj/connections.
>     (Source: Get With IT, www.astd.org/virtual_community/td_magazine)
>
>
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