Council Member Dr. Gene Block Discusses Workforce Development in Los Angeles Chronicle of Higher Education Event

Universities sharpen the competitiveness of their local communities, University of California, Los Angeles President and Council on Competitiveness Executive Committee member, Dr. Gene Block, says. Most significantly, he told an audience at The Chronicle of Higher Education's Zocalo Public Square in L.A., "graduation is the largest technology transfer event that occurs in a city, when really well-trained students go out into the workforce."

Dr. Block's university colleague and fellow Council member, University of Southern California Max Nikias, also addressed the audience: "UCLA, USC, and the California Institute of Technology had educated the manpower and woman power that the city needed to grow…because it was going to benefit the city, and therefore, all of us at the end."

The university presidents underscored one of the main take-aways from the Council's Manufacturing Competitiveness Initiative's recently released report, MAKE: An American Manufacturing Movement, that new graduates with advanced technological skills are critical to the nation's workforce.

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