SCSU axed the football program a few years ago. I'm sure they'd riot if they got rid of Hockey though.

It's always been a mess at Universities and Colleges that do no make quality and consistency a priority. Faculty need to be forced to make a proper template, adhere to quality matters standards and finally do not rapid develop online courses as we saw with covid. If your College doesn't have a dedicated Online Learning Department with competent staff, you're up a creek. Good luck getting faculty to make quality courses. Hell I taught a class for the spring semester at my local CC - it was messy even for me! I can't imagine the experience other students had with less than adept instructors!

I am currently teaching Systems Analysis and Design as an adjunct, and professionally have worked in the online learning space in some capacity for a decade. Even with the experience i have transitioning my F2F class to online was and still is brutal. Rapid development never turns out a good online experience. I've had to cut some corners and make other things that work great in F2F classes "work" online. Given this is my first semester teaching - I do appreciate my students flexibility, and they've been generally receptive to my adaptations. What an awful time to begin teaching... I hope it makes me better in the process. All that aside, my brother's college just decided to cancel the semester instead of going all online like the college down the street. They waited 2 WEEKS after the other college and then decided to cancel. His college should definitely be sued!

I only have an A+ cert I got in high school, which helped me land a computer tech job when I was 17. Was it worth it then? Yep... but now?

I got a Bachelors in Business Management and I've worked in IT in higher education for a decade. I realized something early in working with technology, programming was not my forte. I've dealt with systems design and integration, instructional technology, instructional design, and being a jack of all trades, master of none. I worked within a semi-centralized IT environment and worked collaboratively with colleagues all over campus.

Recently a corporate shill CIO came in thanks to our VP of Business and Finance, and decided to destroy my college's IT community. The idea was to create efficiency by centralizing everything. Since the reorganization, I've seen 4 of my good friends and colleagues leave by force. I was shifted from instructional technology to client services, got my workload doubled, and received an 18% pay cut. By the way, this CIO left abruptly, merely weeks after enacting the re-org, for a higher paying job.

Now in order to fill needs caused by the laid off and struggling institutional IT veterans, the CS manager (who has no experience managing people, probably a friend of our former CIO) hiring whatever warm body Robert Half gives them, never mind the fact that we probably have about 50% mac usage among all faculty and staff, and the RH lackeys know nothing of Macs, and admit that to support clients. In reality, after this month, the CS team will only have two veteran techs that have been there for over 3 years.

I've been on the prowl for jobs in the area and have been looking for 6 months. I have experience managing people and projects across business units, but I'm finding roadblocks all over. I've got a year and a half to go on my masters in leadership development, and it's looking like I need to wrap that up before I can make the next step in my career.

As far as certs go, I see ITIL all over the damn place, and am thinking if I want in on IT managment, ITIL or PMP is the way I need to go.