This is probably one of the most common questions IS students ask: How come you don't teach ? The answer is usually one of the following: we can't, because of time constraints, because we may not be versed well enough in the technology to teach it, and because at a four-year traditional institution, we teach career skills (i.e. long-term focus) and not job skills.
The question is nonetheless relevant. Students should not expect to only spend time in class and on coursework and then find the highest paying positions upon graduation. It is going to take a lot more effort and time. However, it doesn't have to cost a lot of money. Students can't afford to pay for the traditional courses offered by technology vendors or third-parties, they can't afford to attend the industry conferences, etc.
They can however join the major national associations as student members, where they mostly receive the same benefits professional members receive, but at a fraction of the cost. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE (originally short for Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and Society for Information Management (SIM) all have such incentives for students to join.
What are the benefits for students? Plentiful: they include access to digital libraries (often full text, as well as abstracts), online books from Books24x7 or Safari, and online courses.