Jobs for the New Economy
In the year 2025: Will our children be prepared?
a panel discussion
Sunday, March 16, 2008
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Los Altos Youth Center - Civic Center Plaza
1 North San Antonio Road
Los Altos, CA
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Panelists include
• Stephen Levy
Senior Economist with the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy and expert on economic and demographic trends in California.
• Judy Miner
Educator and President of Foothill College
• Barry Groves
Superintendent of the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District
• James Caldwell
Business leader and advocate for educational and workplace partnering
This is an opportunity to join a discussion about issues that will impact all of us. Panelists will discuss the following:
What is being done and what should we be doing to ensure a prosperous economic future for our greater community?
What are the projections as to what jobs industry and government will need twenty years into the future?
Will we have enough skilled workers to fill those jobs?
How are our educational institutions responding to ensure that we have educated workers for tomorrow’s jobs?
If we are parents, grandparents, aunts or uncles, how should we be mentoring young people so they are skilled and employable?
See you there,
Nancy Lippe
Vicki Hobel Schultz
Community Dialogues
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