CC2C
The Community College to Career Initiative (CC2C) is an active partnership between industry and education to expand economic opportunity and increase diversity in the STEM workforce.
With an enrollment of nearly 350,000 students, Silicon Valley’s network of 19 community colleges is the largest training provider in the region, and an equity engine for many of its residents. Three out of ten Silicon Valley 16-24 year olds currently attend community college, and because these schools have forged strong ties to communities traditionally underrepresented in post-secondary education, 77 percent of their students are students of color, and 54 percent are women.
CC2C leverages a wealth of talent among Leadership Group members to provide work-based learning opportunities that translate into student success—higher community college certificate and associate degree completion rates in the short term and better paying jobs in the long term. As the gap between the two Silicon Valleys widens (in 2018, Brookings ranked San Francisco and San Jose third and sixth in income inequality among all US metropolitan regions), CC2C enables Leadership Group members and partners to step in with a concrete, sustainable solution. Learn more>