BAY REGION COE ANNOUNCEMENT

AUGUST 2025

The Bay Region Green Jobs Dashboard is now live, an interactive tool that maps environmentally related occupations to community college programs. Built using O*NET’s national green job classifications and aligned with California’s sector frameworks, the dashboard helps users explore green job titles, related education pathways, and opportunities for program development across the region.

To accompany the launch, we are releasing a new report titled, Building the Green Workforce Pipeline: Community College Opportunities and Future Research Directions for the Bay Region. This report provides a high-level summary of what users can explore in the dashboard, highlighting key green occupations, skill levels, and topic overlaps that shape the Bay Area’s transition to a sustainable economy. Future research will build on these insights to explore regional supply and demand gaps and support workforce planning.

The Bay Region Center of Excellence (COE) is excited to announce the launch of the Student Enrollment and Success Dashboard, which tracks student enrollment and key outcomes across community college institutions, districts, the Bay Region, subregions, and statewide. This comprehensive tool allows for year-to-year comparisons that can reveal areas of success, highlight gaps, and guide strategies to improve student outcomes.

To complement the dashboard, the Bay Region COE also released the report, Student Success Trends Among Adults in the Bay Region, focused on adults aged 25 and over. The report compares outcomes for adult learners and younger peers, highlights the top sectors and programs, and explores differences between Career Technical Education (CTE) and non-CTE students across employment outcomes.

The upcoming deadline to apply for a new bachelor’s degree program is January 15, 2026. As part of the application requirements, all applicants are required to submit a Labor Market Assessment (LMA). To ensure adequate preparation and timely submission of the report, please allow the COE a minimum of three months to complete the LMA. Therefore, you must submit the request to the COE no later than September 19, 2025 through the LMI request form.

Key dates for the submission process:

• Deadline to submit LMI request form: September 19, 2025
• Deadline to submit to BACCC for approval: November 21, 2025
• BACCC approval received by: December 18, 2025
• Deadline to submit application: January 15, 2026

For questions or additional information, contact: Marcela Reyes, Director of Research and Center of Excellence at marcela@baccc.net.

If you missed it, check out the sector profile for education:

• Sector Profile: Early Childhood Education/Education
• Sector Profile: Advanced Transportation

For additional labor market information for California and the Bay Region, visit:

• Statewide Centers of Excellence (COE) for Labor Market Research
• Bay Region COE / BACCC
• Bay Area Community College Consortium (BACCC)

The Bay Region COE is located and hosted by Cabrillo Community College. It serves the 28 community colleges in the 12-county Bay Region with labor market information and workforce research. The COE is funded by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office through the Economic and Workforce Development Program and Strong Workforce Program. Please contact the Bay Region COE if you have any questions about the newsletter, or suggestions for data and information you would like to see in future newsletters.

BAY REGION COE TEAM

Marcela Reyes, Director

marcela@baccc.net

Liza Chavac, Assistant Director

liza@baccc.net

Yumi Huang, Research Analyst

yumi@baccc.net

Leila Jamoosian, Research Analyst

leila@baccc.net