CCWT hosts and offers a variety of speaking engagements related to improving career outcomes for students! This page is a searchable repository for all of CCWT’s recorded events.
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Artificial Intelligence, Real-World Experience: How Experiential Learning Creates Opportunities for All Students to be Prepared for the Future of Work
Marquise McGriff, University of Florida
In today’s rapidly evolving job market, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across various industries is undeniable. This session explores how the University of Florida (UF) has successfully piloted experiential learning initiatives to prepare students from all majors for the AI-integrated workforce. These initiatives ensure that all students have the opportunity to develop needed AI competencies, allowing even those not focused on STEM fields and those who don’t know how to code to engage meaningfully with AI. Participants will gain insights into UF’s comprehensive approach to integrating AI across the curriculum to prepare students for the future of work, which includes research-based scholar programs, professional immersion activities, and creative immersive experiences. By connecting students with real-world AI applications, UF ensures that all graduates are well-equipped to meet the evolving demands of industry. Participants will learn about the different experiential learning opportunities piloted at UF that integrate AI into the curriculum; explore how UF’s AI Scholars Program has enabled students from all backgrounds to engage deeply with AI through research, fostering critical thinking and problem-solving skills; explore how UF’s AI Career Treks offer students in-person and first-hand experience with AI in real-world work settings, enhancing their practical knowledge and employability regardless of their major; discover how UF’s AI Days allow students to engage in hackathons, pitch competitions, and generative AI competitions, encouraging innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration, even for those without a coding background; and have a toolkit of actionable ideas and best practices, inspired by UF’s pilot programs, to create AI-engaged experiential learning opportunities at their institutions, ensuring that all students are prepared for the future workforce.
Confronting Perfectionism and Imposter Syndrome
Dr. Jodi Vandenberg-Daves
JVD Consulting
February 2025
Stop the cycle of continuous self-doubt and “auditioning” at work and learn to embrace and activate talent. In this interactive webinar, Jodi helps participants put these challenges in perspective and develop proactive strategies and mindsets to move past them. She leads a discussion about:
- How gender and other systems intersect with perfectionism and imposter syndrome, and how these challenges can keep you stuck.
- How to identify workplace triggers and develop a growth mindset.
- Developing self-awareness and learning habits of self-reflection and self-regulation to let go of perfectionism.
- Identifying anti-perfectionism strategies like delegation, help-seeking, mutual empowerment team building, identifying and leveraging key strengths, and practicing self-compassion.
NOTE: Claudia’s (the CCWT Student Intern) audio is patchy at the beginning of this video, but the rest of the sound, including the presenters’, is clear throughout the video.
Work-Based Learning: Paving the Way for Career Success through a General Education Course
Dr. Mita Banerjee & Kaila Bingen
University of WI-Parkside
January 2025
When structural barriers prevent students from participating in internships, institutions of higher education can offer alternative solutions to ensure equitable opportunities for all learners. This session will explore the conception, implementation, and continuous evaluation of a new experiential learning course that meets general education requirements. Utilizing a mixed-method design, presenters will share early positive outcomes from the UWP 294: Work-Based Learning course demonstrating how students develop crucial career readiness skills that enhance their future professional prospects. Utilizing a course model based on NACE career readiness competencies and best practices in experiential learning, participants will learn how students’ current work experiences scaffolded with relevant coursework can serve as a viable alternative to internships.
Webinar Slides Accessible Here
To learn more about their work, CLICK HERE to visit Mita’s and Kaila’s website.
Diversity, and Anticolonial Considerations: Immigrants and Refugees at German Universities
November 2024
Join Dr. Lisa Unangst as she uses a critical and historical perspective to explore how immigrant and refugee students have been racialized and how they access and experience college in Germany. Her discussion will address migration and displacement as drivers of student mobility, and specifically the German higher education sector where the vast majority of students enroll at public universities. Dr. Unangst will provide participants with an opportunity to consider how historical context, geopolitical developments, and higher education internationalization have melded to have a clear influence on student equity in the present.
Webinar Slides Accessible Here
Key words: Immigrant, refugee, migration, internationalization, Early Career Scholar, Early Career Scholars