K-16 Regional Education Collaborative Project
Explore more details about the K-16 Regional Education Collaborative Project, including regional goals, key focus areas, and leadership. Spanning North State, Redwood Coast, and Sacramento, this initiative connects education and workforce development to support student success. Learn more about UC Davis’s role, the staff team, and the advisory groups guiding this work.
Goals and Commitments
The K-16 Regional Education Collaborative Project brings together K-12 districts, UC and CSU campuses, community colleges, and local employers to create seamless education-to-career pathways. Each collaborative supports student success through equity-driven initiatives, workforce-aligned programs, and participation in the California Cradle-to-Career Data System. Explore the goals that guide this work and shape regional impact.
- North State
- Occupational Pathways: Education, Healthcare
Recovery with Equity Reccomendations:
Cultivate inclusive, engaging, and equity-oriented learning environment
Provide high-tech, high-touch advising
Retain students through inclusive support
Support college preparation and early credit
Goals:
Goal 1: Increase college and career readiness, post-secondary enrollment, and post-secondary
completion among students at all K-12 districts throughout the region.
Goal 2: Create occupational pathway programs in healthcare and education which are high-
demand fields essential to our rural communities.
Goal 3: Bolster regional economy by training skilled workers.
Goal 4: Support data-driven decision making by establishing cradle to career data that is clear,
timely, and actionable.
Goal 5: Streamline priorities, practices, and policies across systems and the region to create
seamless transitions between educational institutions and/or the workforce - Redwood Coast
- Occupational Pathways: Education, Healthcare
Recovery with Equity Recommendations:
Provide high-tech, high-touch advising
Retain students through inclusive support
Subsidize Internet access for eligible students
Support college preparation and early credit
Goals:
Goal 1: Build a college-going culture demonstrated by improvements in A-G
participation, A-G completion rates, and retention in community colleges and
four-year institutions (focus on Native American and socioeconomically
disadvantaged students specifically); parity with CA averages by 2032.
Goal 2: Reimagine race equity and inclusion in education through dual enrollment and
dual enrollment pathways leading to careers offering living wage jobs.
Goal 3: Increase higher education degree attainment, degree completion, and
employment in higher-wage, higher-skills jobs that meet the region’s
economic and labor market needs.
Goal 4: To increase college readiness and completion, build out more A-G course
offerings, hands-on experiential learning in STEM and health care preparation,
and better and more accessible advising for career pathways.
- Sacramento
- Occupational Pathways: Engineering or Computing, Healthcare
Recovery with Equity Recommendations
Cultivate inclusive, engaging, and equity-oriented learning environment
Improve college affordability
Retain students through inclusive support
Support college preparation and early credit
Goals:
Goal 1: We will send 1300 additional young men of color to UC Davis and Sacramento
State by 2025 and 2026 respectively.
Goal 2: We will triple the number of the region’s students who can graduate from high
school with both a diploma and the freshman year of college completed by 2026.
Goal 3: We will triple the number of students who can graduate high school from
healthcare and engineering pathways that articulate to apprenticeships or stacked
postsecondary certificates and degrees.
Goal 4: We will award 2,000 degrees and/or certificates to adults who have earned but
not claimed them and 2,000 degrees and/or certificates to comebackers, and we will
"reverse transfer" to community college degree and/or certificate programs at least 4,000
adults who started but did not finish their studies at a university.
Goal 5: We will achieve Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) status for colleges and
universities through the full postsecondary continuum.
Community Updates & Forums
Explore recordings, presentations, and agendas from past K-16 Regional Education Collaborative forums. These sessions provide updates on project progress, regional initiatives, and partnership efforts. Browse the resources to stay informed and engaged in the collaboration.
- December 11, 2023 Coffee Hour
- March 29, 2023 Coffee Hour
- December 13, 2022 Coffee Hour
Project Teams
UC Davis is coordinating with a broad range of stakeholders across the UC Davis Campus. We regularly engage with our advisory teams and the wider UC Davis community.
- Staff Support Team
Principal Investigator: Renetta G. Tull, Vice Chancellor, Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
North State Regional Lead: Laura Cerruti, Chief Impact Officer, Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Redwood Coast Regional Leads: Charlene Green, Assistant Dean of Admissions, Outreach, and Diversity for the School of Medicine
Sacramento Regional Lead: Ebony Lewis, Chief Strategy Officer, Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Project support: Elaina Lopez, Program Analyst, Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Administrative and Grants Management: Robbielyn Tesnado, Chief Administrative Officer, Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Elvia Mayes, Research Analyst, School of Education
Data and finance support: Sunjeet (Sunny) Dosanjh, Program Analyst, Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- UC Davis Advisory Team
Our advisory group consists of members from UC Davis and UC Davis Health, as well as our professional schools and campus student organizations. The team meets monthly to ensure that we are meeting the project’s goals and milestones.
Sacramento Workgroup Co-Chairs - Healthcare Pathway: Beth Broome, Senior Advisor to the Provost for STEM Strategy; Charlene Green, Assistant Dean, UC Davis School of Medicine and Office of Resident Diversity
Sacramento Workgroup Chair - Student Special Populations: Ebony Lewis, Chief Strategy Officer, Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion