EXTON, PA – The SCTE Foundation has created a new scholarship in the memory of SCTE executive Cathy Oakes for women in the cable telecommunications industry technical workforce.
The Catherine Oakes Memorial Leadership Scholarship for Women will recognize and reward women who currently are or aspire to become cable engineering or operations professionals. The scholarship may be used toward registration in an industry development program or an executive education program, including the SCTE-Tuck Executive Leadership Program and the SCTE-Georgia Tech Management Development Program.
Cathy Oakes passed away suddenly last Saturday. As senior vice-president, operations for SCTE, she had been a leading voice for diversity and inclusion in the cable engineering and operations workforce. She championed the integration of women’s and diversity issues into the SCTE-Tuck Executive Leadership Program and the SCTE Foundation, and she was instrumental in the creation of Women’s TechConnect, a mentoring program for women technologists that is a joint initiative of SCTE and WICT. She was honored at Thursday’s CableFAX breakfast event as one of cable’s Top Women in Technology.
Established in 2005, the SCTE Foundation is intended to increase the technical, business and leadership skills of the telecommunications engineering workforce, attract and recruit women and minorities into engineering careers, and position the telecommunications industry as a desirable career opportunity for aspiring young people in the early stages of their careers.
