IBM Academic Initiative Helps Marywood University Become Leading Local Institution for Integrated Technical and Business Education

IBM Academic Initiative Helps Marywood University Become Leading Local Institution for Integrated Technical and Business Education

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Marywood University announced today that the University is enhancing its ability to offer students an education that unites technical skills with business knowledge. Working in concert with the IBM Academic Initiative for System i, Marywood is developing an advanced new curriculum to provide its IT graduates with the skills they’ll need to succeed professionally. Additionally, Marywood installed a new “all-in-one” System i business computing platform in its Business Department to serve as the cornerstone for the University’s enhanced Business Information Technology (BIT) curriculum.

Working in concert with the IBM Academic Initiative for System i — which provides students and professors with hands-on access to the System i platform, curriculum, industry experts and training — Marywood’s BIT professors have adjusted specific courses to make the best use of the new System i and are actively designing a new curricula for the BIT program that focuses on the tight integration of business and information technology.

“We feel that our ability to teach students to effectively analyze, design and use information technology to bring about tangible business improvements is a key differentiator of Marywood’s BIT program from other computer science and computer information systems programs,” said Rex Dumdum, PhD., program director for Marywood University’s Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Business Information Technology. “Having the best business computer available in the marketplace as the teaching and learning tool for our program gives Marywood’s students a competitive edge in landing more strategic and sustainable jobs in information technology.”

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