Learn and Earn at
WVU Parkersburg
WVU Parkersburg’s computer and information technology
(CIT) students have the opportunity to gain real-world work
experience while earning their degrees.
The Ntiva Service Desk Academy, located on campus in the
Caperton Center for Applied Technology, enables students in the
college’s CIT Learn and Earn program to work remotely for the
Washington, D.C.-based tech company while completing their
associate degree. Through this new partnership, students are
provided the opportunity to work with customers on IT requests,
technical issues and projects in a live, fully functional, professional
IT service desk environment. Participants earn $16 an hour and
may work up to 1,200 hours during the internship period. Ntiva
employees work alongside the students to train and mentor those
selected for the program.
“We are pleased to partner with Ntiva to offer this one-of-a-
kind internship opportunity to our CIT students,” says WVU
Parkersburg STEM Instructor Doug Rhodes. “It is very exciting
to have the service desk located in the same building where
our students are learning. It not only helps the students hired
by Ntiva, but all our CIT students, to better understand what
a modern service desk looks like, how it operates and the skills
we are teaching in the classroom.”
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