The National Geospatial Technology Center Confirmed as UCGIS Affiliate

UCGIS is pleased to welcome The National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence (GeoTech Center) as a new Affiliate organization. GeoTech is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technology Education program. Its goals are to provide leadership to the 450 two-year colleges nationwide that currently offer geospatial programs and to promote geospatial education in colleges that lack such programs.
 
GeoTech offers UCGIS an important link to the network of community colleges. Its teaching mission aligns with geo-science training objectives that offer UCGIS an informed perspective on developments at community colleges and enhanced access to an understanding of community needs at local and regional scales. GeoTech welcomes collaboration with UCGIS institutions to achieve better articulation pathways for graduates of two-year programs seeking baccalaureate degrees and it is interested in advancing cooperative research efforts and funding initiatives that support geo-science education in the United States.
 
The principal investigator for the NSF program and Director of the GeoTech Center is Phillip Davis, a professor of computer science and information technology at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas. The designated delegates to UCGIS are Ann Johnson of Del Mar College and Chris Semerjian of Gainesville State College in Gainesville, Georgia.
 
For more information, see GeoTech’s web site (http://www.geotechcenter.org/) and its UCGIS descriptive statement