conversation Spotlights Higher Education and Workforce Connections
In celebration of California Competes’s tenth anniversary, Loren Kaye, President of the California Foundation for Commerce and Education, joined Executive Director Dr. Su Jin Gatlin Jez for a discussion on employers’ relationship with higher education. The Foundation is affiliated with the California Chamber of Commerce and serves as a think tank for the California business community.
Dr. Jez and Mr. Kaye discussed how higher education fits into the state’s economic recovery, efforts to close equity gaps, and the impact of COVID-19.