Employer Engagement Retreat
December 15, 2022
As part of the Bay Area K-16 Collaborative planning process, employer and education representatives from across the Bay Area gathered for a full-day retreat on December 15, 2022, at the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District (CLPCCD) offices in Dublin, CA. Leaders from 11 organizations that work with employers across the Bay Area region came together to begin developing a plan to build employer partnerships and engage employers in creating work-based learning and career opportunities in targeted sectors (Business Management, Education, Health Care, and Engineering).
Vice Chancellor and collaborative co-PI Theresa Fleischer Rowland and Julia Dozier, Executive Director of Economic Development and Contract Education, convened the group, and CLPCCD Consultant Chris Bennet facilitated the group’s discussion about strategies to achieve equitable pathways from high school to postsecondary education and into the workforce. The conversation focused on identifying the needs of employers, educational institutions, and students, as well as strategies to engage Bay Area employers. The group will meet two times over the next couple of months to continue the conversation and inform the Bay Area K-16 Collaborative grant planning process and grant submission in October 2023.
Pictured from left to right are: [Front row] Theresa Fleischer Rowland, CLPCCD; Patti Castro, Bay Area Council; John Halpin, City College of San Francisco; Beth McCormick, Innovation Tri-Valley; Suzanne Smith, Tri-Valley ROP; Amelia Bernal-Valencia, Robert Half International; John Salangsang, Chabot College; Albert S. Wright, Silicon Valley Black Chamber of Commerce; Bernard Ashcraft, Bay Area Business Roundtable; [Back row] David Palter, Silicon Valley Leadership Group; Julia Dozier, CLPCCD; Jessica Muñoz, Social Policy Research Associates (notetaker); Chris Bennett, CLPCCD; Edgar Chavez, Hayward Promise Neighborhood; Mark Orcutt, East Bay Leadership Council/Contra Costa Economic Partnership; [Not pictured] Vinz Koller, Social Policy Research Associates (report writer); Anne Palmer, Stanford University