Building the Texas Workforce: Partnership Between Businesses and Higher Education
Come learn from a panel of industry executives how they interface with San Jacinto College to form meaningful relationships and create board-level partnerships within some of the nation’s largest Fortune 500 corporations. San Jacinto College, an Aspen Institute award winning college located in Houston, Texas, serves approximately 45,000 credit and non-credit students annually. The College has a rich heritage of continuous collaboration with the petrochemical, maritime, and aerospace industries, among others, to adapt to ever-changing workforce needs --- and does so within a challenging environment of aging employment, rapid expansion, and technological innovation. This collaboration effectively allows the College, and industry, to transform the students of today into the highly-sought-after workforce of tomorrow!