Leading with Evidence: Data & Technology in Action at Community Colleges

Project on Workforce Team
Aug 19
3 min read

Updated: Oct 28

The Project on Workforce at Harvard and Education Design Lab invite you to Harvard Business School this fall for Leading with Evidence: Data & Technology in Action at Community Colleges. This one-day, invitation-only convening builds on our multi-year research and design initiative examining how community colleges can leverage labor market and student outcomes data to improve institutional decision-making and drive student success.

Designed for college presidents and senior workforce leaders, the event will address urgent questions: Which economic outcomes and labor market data matter most in today's shifting workforce landscape? How can colleges collect and deploy those insights to improve student outcomes, meet regional demands, and implement new policy changes, like Workforce Pell? And what role should new technologies--including generative AI--play in this work?

Through candid peer exchange, case studies of effective policy and practice, and dialogue with national experts and innovators, participants will explore what works--and shape what's next for the field. They will leave with concrete strategies and a network of leaders committed to advancing data- and technology-driven solutions in a changing landscape.

This is an in-person, invitation-only event.

Date: Thursday, October 30

Time: 8:30am - 6:00pm ET

Location: Batten Hall, Room 301, Harvard Business School

125 Western Ave, Allston, MA 02134

Dress: Business casual

Registration has closed.

Tentative Agenda

8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast & Check-in

9:00 - 9:10 Welcome & Overview

9:10 - 10:00 Generative AI & the Evolving Education and Workforce Landscape

Speakers: Lisa Gevelber (Global VP and Managing Director, Google) & Joseph Fuller (HBS Professor of Management Practice and Co-Director of the Project on Workforce)

10:00 - 10:20 Vision 2030: A Roadmap in the Age of AI

Speaker: Sonya Christian (Chancellor, California Community Colleges)

10:20 - 10:35 Break

10:35 - 11:25 Building Agile Workforce Programs in a Changing Labor Market

Speakers: Dr. Mike Flores (Chancellor, Alamo Colleges), Deniece Thomas (Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development), Dr. Chris Reber (President, Hudson Community College) & Paul Fain (Work Shift)

11:25 - 12:00 Workforce Data, Agility & Labor Market Alignment Workshop

Speaker: Kerry McKittrick (Project on Workforce)

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 1:50 Elevating Community College Student Voices

Speakers: Anuvhuti Bisht (Hudson County Community College Student), Eliah Rashchuk (Community College of Aurora Student), Daniel Almaraz (Riverland Community College Alumnus) & Simba Gandari (Director of Higher Education, Tulsa Innovation Lab)

2:00 - 2:50 Case Studies 1: Data & Technology Transforming Community Colleges

Dallas Community College (TX), Community College of Aurora (CO), Bunker Hill Community College (MA), Riverland Community College (MN)

2:50 - 3:10 Break

3:10 - 4:00 Case Studies 2: Data & Technology Transforming Community Colleges

Northern Virginia Community College, Hudson County Community College (NJ), Victoria College (TX)

4:00 - 4:15 Conclusion & Next Steps

4:15 - 6:00 Networking Reception

Directions & Travel

Campus Map

The event will take place at Batten Hall at Harvard Business School, room 301. Please click on the following link for a downloadable map of campus: HBS Campus Map

Traveling by air

If you are planning to travel by air, you will be flying into Logan Airport (code BOS). HBS is a short taxi ride from the airport.

Traveling by Amtrak

Take Amtrak to South Station. For more information, please visit the Amtrak website or call (800) USA-RAIL.

Traveling by T (mass transit)

Take the MBTA (the T) Red Line to Harvard Square. John F. Kennedy Street runs through the center of Harvard Square. Walk south on John F. Kennedy Street, crossing over the Charles River on the Anderson Bridge. The Harvard Business School is on the left, after the bridge. Take the first entrance leading into the campus.

HBS Rideshare/Taxi Stand:

HBS Taxi Stand- One Western Avenue, Boston, MA

Spangler Rotary- 117 Western Avenue, Boston, MA

Map linked here.

Parking

Parking in the Visitor & Permit Parking Lot on the HBS campus is complimentary for all attendees of the conference. Enter campus at Western Avenue/Batten Way and the entrance to the lot will be located on your right as you head toward Spangler Center. Please let the parking attendant know that you are attending Leading with Evidence: Data & Technology in Action at Community Colleges.