21st Century Workforce Commission

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21st Century Workforce Commission

• Meeting at De Anza College
• January 26, 2000
• Robert L. Caret, President
• San Jose State University

2
SJSU and the CSU

• Size, scope, history
• The role of the comprehensive university the
  metropolitan university
• The California Master Plan the dream
• Changes
• Challenges
• Whats ahead?

3
Workforce Needs

• The school to career focus
• Workforce issues
• Joint Venture Silicon Valley Initiative
• hypothesis
• demand
• cost
• the gaps
• education, employment, financial

4
Questions and Answers

• Barriers
• career awareness preparation/standards cost
• Actions
• K-18/business outreach
• targeted programs/articulation
• standards
• teaching/learning
• resources
• focus on life-long learning

5
IT Change and Pace of Change

• Moores Law still holds
• Bandwidth is getting there
• Fundamental societal shift occurring
• Cost/complexity decreasing barriers
• Time and place no longer fixed variables
• Educational needs similar but shifting
• Move towards individualized education

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Partnerships

• Education, Business, Government
• JVSV SVMG K-18 Collaborative
• Designer programs/certificates
• Targeted industry efforts
• Career awareness
• Entrepreneurship efforts

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Higher Education Goals

• Access
• Affordability
• Quality
• the foundation of a democratic society

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To Do

• Education as a focus
• Maintain access and affordability
• Quality as a focus
• School to career as a focus
• Resources
• Systemic Change