Postsecondary Spotlight on Career and Technical Education Futures

May 21, 9:00 am PT, 10:00 am MT, 11:00 am CT, 12:00 pm ET

This series of three exciting webinars will cover a variety of the impacts that AI already has on higher education and how leaders are responding. Join these free, fast-paced Spotlight webinars to learn from panels of experts: (1) The impacts of AI on Career and Technical Education (CTE) pathways and how institutions can adjust to better prepare students, (2) How advising frameworks are braiding AI and human connections to support learners, and (3) How funders can come together to ensure AI advances organizational growth while ensuring all communities benefit from ethical AI incorporation.

Register here for the May 21 webinar, which will focus on the impacts of AI on CTE pathways and how institutions can adjust to better prepare students. This event is intended for members and other education grantmakers.

There is no cost to attend this Grantmakers for Education program.

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About the Speakers

Paula Kashtan
Program Officer
ECMC Foundation

Paula Kashtan is a Program Officer at ECMC Foundation, a national postsecondary funder focused on closing gaps in postsecondary completion for economic and social mobility. Paula’s grantmaking portfolio focuses on holistic advising. She sits on the steering committee of Grantmakers for Education’s Postsecondary Access and Attainment Impact Group, as well as the Families and Workers Fund’s Workers Thriving in the AI Era working group. Prior to joining ECMC Foundation Paula worked in development at College Possible Minnesota, where she was responsible for more than $3 million in annual foundation fundraising to support college access and success programming for students from low-income backgrounds. She also has extensive non-profit programmatic experience, with a particular focus on college matriculation and persistence initiatives serving students not historically represented in higher education. She’s held leadership positions at College Access: Research and Action, National School Climate Center, and Step Up, as well as a teaching role at Manual Arts High School in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Paula holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a master’s degree in urban education from UCLA

Dr. Cameron Sublett
Senior Director of Innovation and Incubation
Foundation for California Community Colleges

Dr. Cameron Sublett (Co-Investigator) is Senior Director of Innovation and Incubation at the Foundation for California Community Colleges where he leads efforts to design, test, and scale initiatives that expand educational access, improve outcomes, and increase economic opportunity across California’s community colleges. His research focuses on policies and practices that support student pathways through community college into the workforce. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the U.S. Department of Education and has been published in Research in Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, The Journal of Education Finance, and Teachers College Record. Prior to his current role, he served as an associate professor of higher education and Executive Director of The Education Research & Opportunity Center at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. He began his career as a faculty member at Santa Barbara City College – a 2013 Aspen Prize for the Community College Excellence Co-Winner and Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).