On Thursday October 26th, 2023, the annual Pasadena City 大学 Future of Work proudly returned for its fifth year as the Los Angeles region’s premiere conference on improving community college student success outcomes. This year, Pasadena City 大学 brought together students, faculty, state and federal workforce leadership, community colleges colleagues, and labor and discussed ways to revolutionize the workforce pathways to increase equitable student success.

The Future of Work Conference focused on:

• How to better align the goals and systems of California’s workforce development programs, California community college career technical education, and trade unions.
• Exploring how to adapt best-in-class systems innovations in student success to the California community college academic system to meet student and employer needs.
• Understanding how community colleges, and its regional collaborators, can best align national and state priorities, from industry sector priorities to the growth of good-paying union jobs that keep America globally competitive.