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Mid-Atlantic Regional Technology in Education Consortium
1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave.
Ritter Annex 9th Floor
Temple University - CRHDE
Philadelphia, PA 19122
800-892-5550
215-204-5130 (fax)
General Inquires:
Laurence Peters
Judith Stull
Technical Assistance:
Barry Mansfield
Professional Development:
Joan Pasternak
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Temple University Center for Research
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Building a Webcentric Educational Community Network
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by
Marcia Cushall
Frostburg State University
For over 100 years, Frostburg State University (FSU) and the Allegany County Public Schools (ACPS) have shared a common heritage and destiny. FSU has provided the county with teachers and other educational personnel, and the county schools have served as sites for student placement and training. Although this relationship gets deeper and richer every year and encompasses an ever-widening range of collaborations, the common need for the resources to become technologically competitive has added urgency to this partnership. FSU needs technology-rich sites in which to educate its teachers; Allegany needs support from the university to increase its technological viability.
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In addition to the university and the school district, the wider community needs to be involved in this partnership effort. Many of the FSU students transfer from the Allegany College of Maryland (ACOM), the local community college, which means that its required courses for teacher candidate need to be addressed. Most of the private and parochial schools in the area provide field sites for FSU. In addition, the parents and members of the community must become part of this technology collaboration if it is to increase its impact. Finally, the university and county are inexorably linked in economic development. The university has made an extraordinary effort to reposition itself as an engine of economic development. As the second largest employer in the county, it has pledged to upgrade and increase the job opportunities for the entire population by developing a sophisticated economic park that is built on the premise that there will be a trained workforce to staff it.The university and county have taken extraordinary efforts to develop the infrastructure through which they can collaboratively and separately reach the next level of technology capability.
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