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Fri, 04 Mar 2005

Apprenticeship Program in Jeopardy

Rachel is waving a red flag, hoping that the agile community will take notice:

"I am writing this blog to express my personal support for the Software Development Apprenticeship (SDA) program at New Mexico Highlands University. The program's unique approach to remunerated experiential education prepares student apprentices for careers as agile developers who understand the value of people and craft in the development of humane software systems."

Linda's description of this program encourages me to keep my own dream alive of starting a local apprenticeship program someday:

"The Bachelor of Software Development Apprenticeship (SDA) program at NMHU is the realization of Dave [West]'s long-held goal: teaching students in a community to use software development as a lever to change the world instead of using it as a tool for doing the same things people have always done more quickly and accurately. This reflects his belief that the key to improvement is better people rather than more rigidly specified processes."

According to Rachel this program is in danger of being cancelled. It's not clear how people can help out, but it sounds like Rachel will have more info soon.

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