Agenda

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

12:00 p.m. – 12:10 p.m. Opening Remarks

  • Katherine Newman, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, UC Office of the President

12:10 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Session 1: National Labor Market for Recent College Graduates

Speakers:

  • David Autor, Daniel and Gail Rubinfield Professor, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Google Technology and Society Visiting Fellow, MIT
  • Erik Brynjolfsson, Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor, and Senior Fellow, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University
  • Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley
  • Harry Holzer, John LaFarge Jr. SJ Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University

Moderator:

  • Katherine Newman, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, UC Office of the President

1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Break

1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Session 2: California Labor Market for Recent College Graduates

Speakers:

  • Sarah Bohn, Vice President and Director of the Economic Policy Center, and Senior Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California
  • Juan Barrios, Chief, Labor Market Information Division, California Employment Development Department
  • Peter McCrory, Head of Economics, Anthropic
  • Jesse Rothstein, Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Public Policy and Director, California Policy Lab and Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley

Moderator:

3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Break

3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Session 3: Employer Insights on UC Alumni in the Workforce

Speakers:

  • Henry Deng, Employer Partnerships Lead, Google
  • Jim Kaplan, Former Chief of Engineering, Lockheed Martin
  • Scott McGregor, Director of Community Enablement, Cisco
  • Ameet Shukla, Head of Content, 1Community LLC
  • Ben Thomas, Medical Director of Health Equity, Emergency Medicine Physician, and Co-Director, Introduction to Integrated Healthcare Pipeline Program, The Permanente Medical Group

Moderator:

  • Lori Kletzer, Professor of Economics and Former Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, UC Santa Cruz

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Session 4: UC Alumni Pathways and Labor Market Data

Speakers:

  • Pamela Brown, Vice President, Institutional Research and Academic Planning, UC Office of the President
  • Chris Furgiuele, Director, Institutional Research and Academic Planning, UC Office of the President

9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Session 5: Ongoing Labor Market Challenges 

Panel of faculty members including computer science, engineering to discuss labor market challenges – such as industry layoffs and impact of AI – and how they are adapting academic planning and programs, courses, and/or certifications.

Speakers:

  • Marios Papaefthymiou, Dean, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine
  • John D. Skrentny, Professor, Department of Sociology, UC San Diego
  • Mary Walshok, Associate Vice Chancellor for Public Programs and Dean of Extension Emerita, UC San Diego

Moderator:

  • Richard Arum, Professor of Sociology and Education, and Dean Emeritus, School of Education, UC Irvine

10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break

10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Session 6: UC Career Centers: Preparing UC Students for a Transforming Workforce

Speakers:

  • Sean Gil, Director, Career Center, UC Riverside
  • Andrea Hanson, Interim Executive Director, UC Davis
  • Carina Salazar, Executive Director for Career and Immersive Experiences, UCLA

Moderator:

  • Pamela Brown, Vice President, Institutional Research and Academic Planning, UC Office of the President

11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Closing Remarks