WorkforceRx: Agile and Inclusive Strategies for Employers, Educators and Workers in Unsettled Times (co-sponsored event)

WorkforceRx: Agile and Inclusive Strategies for Employers, Educators and Workers in Unsettled Times

A book conversation with author Van Ton-Quinlivan, former executive vice chancellor for the California Community Colleges. Interviewed by Mitchell Stevens, professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education. REGISTER HERE About the author: Van Ton-Quinlivan is the CEO of Futuro Health and former Vice Chancellor at California’s community college system. Her recent book WorkforceRx: Agile and Inclusive Strategies for Employers, Educators and Workers in Unsettled Times offers a set of prescriptions for connecting workers, educational opportunities and employment that could help to close the economic divide. She will be interviewed by Mitchell Stevens, a sociologist and professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education. About the Academic Innovation for the Public Good book series: Stanford Digital Education and Trinity College have organized 10 monthly book conversations via Zoom with leading scholars on how higher education can affect the public good. The program hopes to foster discussion about how to make higher education’s future more equitable and accessible. Each event features an author of a recently published book exploring the role of colleges and universities in addressing society’s problems. An expert in the author’s field will conduct the interview, followed by questions from the audience. The conversation will last for one hour starting at 4 p.m. Pacific time from January through October on the fourth Wednesday of every month, except for the June event, which will be a week earlier. *The Academic Innovation for the Public Good book series is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Center for Academic Innovation.