In this episode, host Marc Goldberg interviews Tillamook Bay Community College graduate and current college Success Coach and adjunct welding faculty Jude Schlotzhauer, college President Dr. Ross Tomlin and Laura Dresser, associate diirector at COWS, a research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jude discusses how transformative her college experience was as a student and how she is now able to reciprocate the same culture of care with other students in her roles as a success coach and faculty member. She describes how her work at the college is the best quality job she’s had before and offers really interesting ideas on how employers and colleges can listen to students and workers in authentic ways.
President Tomlin elaborates further on how the college supports job quality for its employees with different strategies connecting it all back to student success. He also shares the importance of external partnerships for the college with employers and economic development organizations to support economic equity and vitality in their region of the state.
Laura offers insights on the COWS definition of high road employers with good job quality and how colleges can collaborate with employers to promote job quality and employee retention through benchmarking effective strategies from these high road employers. She emphasizes the critical role community and technical college career pathways programs play in creating access and support for students and workers towards careers with economic mobility.
The All In: Student Pathways Forward podcast is a part of Oregon’s participation in the National Skills Coalition SkillSPAN network.