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Does the STC or any other body oversee and bless technical communication
programs at colleges and universities? What's the STC's relationship to
college TC programs? Why do some schools have STC student chapters and others
not: Is it a function of student and faculty enthusiasm and commitment, or is
there also some set of criteria that the program has to meet?
I'm setting out to mentor a nice young fella from SCSU and neither he nor I
even knows if they have a program down in Orangeburg yet. And that made me
wonder how the RPIs and CMUs get their big reps -- is it because of sheer
quality or do they meet and/or set some benchmarks for training in the
profession?
