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Innovation Clearinghouse
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Professional Development
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Business Industry Leadership Teams
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NITIC Showcases Round One Mini-Grant Projects and Announces Round Two Awardees
As 2025 comes to a close, the National IT Innovation Center (NITIC) would like to congratulate the first round of mini-grant recipients for…
Creating the AI-Enabled Community College: A Roadmap for Student Success
In a rapidly evolving technological landscape, community colleges stand at a pivotal crossroads. The Achieving the Dream (ATD) AI for All Task Force has…
Professional Skills 101: Your Key to Career Success
By Diane Meza, Executive Director; Co-PI, NSF Funded, National Information Technology and Innovation Center (NITIC); Maricopa County Community Colleges –…
IT Industry News
18,000 Reasons It’s So Hard to Build a Chip Factory in America
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) vast semiconductor complex in Phoenix highlights how difficult it is to build advanced chip plants…
Cybersecurity workforce study finds budget constraints stabilizing, but skills shortages worsening
Whilst 2024 saw a surge in redundancies, budget cuts, and hiring and promotion freezes in cybersecurity, 2025 data reveals that…
Silicon Valley Builds Amazon and Gmail Copycats to Train A.I. Agents
Startups like AGI and Plato are recreating the websites of major companies like United Airlines, Amazon, Airbnb, and Gmail to…