Labor Market News and Updates: December 2024

Year-End Review

34 LMAs have been completed for our regional colleges, between July and November 2024
Our SCCCD COE website is available as a resource/tool and to answer an COE or labor market questions
Our CVML COE team created a resource page to help answer your labor market questions, access important information and schedule an appointment with us
We have a full CVML COE staff that is available for your labor market needs

CVML COE Team

Patricia Salinas

Interim District Director

patricia.salinas@scccd.edu

Ignacio Faria

Senior Research & Planning Analyst

ignacio.faria@scccd.edu

Angela Steitz

Program Specialist

angela.steitz@scccd.edu

DataVista Highlights

DataVista aims to provide up-to-date and useful information on students within the California Community Colleges and its Adult Education partners. DataVista is a modernization of the supporting architecture and visualization of metrics previously available on the LaunchBoard.

Presentation ready exports, data & tables and search options
View data in a snapshot view or a cohort view
Resources feature that provides metric dictionaries, webinar slide decks, TOP codes, etc.
Non-special admit students are included in the data
Data can be viewed by: 1) reports and insights, 2) metric themes or 3) single metric

Get to know our CVML Regional Chair: Lora Larkin

Lora Larkin is the newly appointed Executive Director and Regional Chair for the Central Valley Motherlode Regional Consortium (CVML) for California Community Colleges. A native of Bakersfield, California, she has spent most of her career with Bakersfield College and the Kern Community College District in various roles, including as a professor for 18 years, district faculty negotiator, and as an administrator the last several years for various programs, particularly in career and technical education including industrial technology, public safety, business, and renewable energy. With a family firmly grounded in industry, she is passionate about further educating and developing the region's workforce, even as it continues to expand with new technologies and apprenticeships. She is an alumnus of Bakersfield College and California State University Bakersfield, and has a master's degree in clinical psychology with a forensic emphasis. She enjoys spending time with her family, especially her two grown children doing anything outdoors.

Fun Fact: Lora enjoys horticulture, and even landscaped her own yard!

For CVML regional consortium questions, please reach out to Lora at: llarkin@kccd.edu.

Regional Data Dashboards

Now Available for Deans:

Data dashboards are accessible as of 12/6/24 for CVML regional college deans and personnel. The data dashboards are visual tools designed to track, display, and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) and other relevant data related to career and technical education (CTE). Our team has been working to provide reliable and relevant information to support making informed decisions, measure progress, and optimize career-focused programs. To ensure that our data dashboards remain responsive, effective, and aligned with real-world needs, our staff plan for ongoing monitoring, review and updates. A comprehensive data dashboard overview session which will guide college personnel through a thorough review, is scheduled for January 23, 2025 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm (location TBA), so please save the date! More information to follow.

COE Data Dashboard Link

Data Dashboard Updates Coming Soon: Employment data and requested updates!

New Labor Market Assessment (LMA) Findings

The Center of Excellence (COE) provides up-to-date labor market data to support community college program development across the Central Valley Regional Consortium. The COE assists of 15 community colleges in the region by delivering customized data on high-growth, emerging, and economically critical industries and occupations. This research helps community colleges make informed decisions and develop relevant resources for their programs.

Applied Photography

Fresno City College had the most community college award completions in the region for Applied Photography, between 2020 and 2023.

Architectural Drafting

In the field of Architectural Drafting, 61% of workers had some community college training or an associate degree as their highest level of education.

Chemical Technology

The hourly entry-level wage for Chemical Technicians, is $20.88 in the NCV/NML region, which is above the living wage for one adult ($16.81) in the NCV/NML region.

Fire Technology

Firefighters ($25.61), Fire Inspectors and Investigators ($28.04), and Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists ($25.67) all earn significantly more than the NCV/NML living wage of $16.81 for one adult in the region.

Geographic Information

There are projected to be 41 jobs available annually in the SCV/SML region for Surveying and Mapping Technicians and it is projected to increase by 6% through 2028.