To dovetail with the earlier post re: Bill Gates’ views on education, a bit from MSNBC. The article highlights the drop in interest in traditional CS education–”the Higher Education Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles found 60 percent fewer [students] wanted to study computer science in 2004 as opposed to the year 2000.” This coupled with explosvie growth in the number of IT-related degrees going to nontraditional students and minorities at for-profit institutions like DeVry.

Experts such as [AAAS’s Shirley] Malcom [recently featured in NCSA’s Access magazine] think some colleges should “take a page” off the for-profit, client-based institutions such as Strayer and DeVry, and make computer science more accessible, practical and less intimidating, to get more 18 year-olds to major in computer science.

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