09/17/2026
The WICE team attended the California Workforce Association Meeting of the Minds annual conference and presented in two sessions in collaboration with the Cal State University Office of the Chancellor.
Dean of the College of Professional and Global Education at Cal Poly Pomona, Dr. Larisa Preiser-Houy and special consultant, Dr. Regina Cash, spoke alongside Dr. Mandara Savage, Assistant Vice Chancellor of CSU Professional and Continuing Education (PaCE), on “How CSU PaCE Partnerships are Driving Regional Impact” for workforce development.
Dr. Larisa Presier-Houy, Shelly Yu-Tze Wang, Ed.D., and Jacob Beyer from the WICE team also presented “The WICE Ecosystem: A Workforce Innovation Partnership Framework” with our partners SELACO WDB and Bronco CareerWorks by Roth Staffing. Through our partnerships we are driving workforce development by rethinking how educational institutions, workforce development boards, and staffing firms can work together to impact learning and career outcomes for our audience.
We met with many workforce development partners to explore opportunities and learn how our counterparts are working to build pathways that lead to employment and expand access to opportunity. One theme emerged—we must listen to the needs of the field and work even closer. Today’s critical workforce issues will not be solved in silos.