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"It Just Makes You Smile"

It’s fitting that the Ed Roberts Campus (a tribute to the late Ed Roberts, one of the primary leaders the Independent Living Movement) would itself represent yet another milestone in that movement. For the first time, a building specifically designed…

Money Smart

CTP’s Executive Director, Joan Breves’s relative has just published Money Smart, a better approach to money management. The author Ted Hunter has offered CTP 25% of sales if you buy his book thought this link (until November 12th). Neil Jacobson…

Job: Part Time Lab Instructor

Update – This job has been filled. Computer Technologies Program (www.ctpberk.org) is seeking a part time lab instructor for its Network and Technical Support program. CTP is a 35 year old non-profit organization that primarily serves adults with disabilities. The…

The Future of CTP

First CTP was a few classrooms at the old Vista College, now known as Berkeley City College. Then came our own building on Milvia Street, until it was judged to be seismically unfit. The image of flying wheelchairs and canes…

Automated Student Tracking Now Available at CTP

Linda Pratt, a member of CTP’s board of directors, contributed a great deal of personal time, technical skills and recruited a volunteer to develop a great new part of CTP’s IT infrastructure. CTP asked Linda to describe the new systems…

Student Awards

AL NIES “FURTHER” AWARD The Al Nies “Further” award is sponsored by Ainsley Nies, a CTP graduate of Programming Class 4. In honor and in memory of her husband, Al Nies, this annual award is given to a programming class…

Forward to the Past! COBOL lives again

In 2000 (Year2K) the general perception of mainframes & COBOL was that they were a technology in their final days, soon to be replaced by modern technologies and modern languages. A funny thing happened on the way to the future…

Abilicorp

Having Your Cake and Eating It Too? Abilicorp Focuses On Employment for Those with Disabilities We are pleased to announce that our friends over at Abilicorp are now fully operational. The really good news is that they are seeking individuals…

CTP Students and Alumni

Robert participated in a laptop upgrade project for PeopleTools Development at the Oracle Pleasanton campus. He used Symantec Ghost 8.0 to image more than 80 Dell Latitude D620 laptops with a Windows XP operating system Connie Zipton (OST 22) is…

CTP’s Social Network

The CTP community now has an e-gathering place! Our new social network means you  can re-connect with old classmates, teachers and CTP staff, join the chatter and reminisce about the good (and bad) old days and let us know where…