OCCA Lunch & Learn Webinars

Join OCCA for monthly professional development webinars during 2025-26 to learn about issues important to community college board members and leaders. Register for one or all eight!

These hour-long webinars will take place the last Thursday of each month at noon PST. There is no registration cost to attend these training sessions for OCCA members as they are included as a member benefit. All webinars are recorded, with recordings posted to this page following webinar completion.

PERS

PERS is often in the news, yet it is generally not well understood. You’ve learned the basics of PERS at recent OCCA conferences, so we’ve invited Carol Samuels and Brendan Watkins from Piper Sandler & Co. to lead this Lunch and Learn to share some hot topics related to PERS that could impact community college budgets in the coming years. PERS rates are set for the 2025-27 biennium, but changes are coming to the administration of “side accounts” which could have direct implications for community colleges. These “PERS gurus” always make the topic of PERS as exciting as possible, and we encourage board members, presidents, and college business officers to attend this session to learn more about how these hot topics may impact 2027-29 rates.

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Advocacy for the 2026 Legislative Session

The 2026 “short” Legislative Session begins in February, so attend this session to learn about community college priorities, messaging and how you can be a strong and effective advocate.