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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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
Promoting Language Skills in Career Development
November 2024
Language abilities are an incredible asset for job seekers – regardless of their career interest!
In this webinar, University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Lydia Odegard, Language Directions Specialist at the Language Institute, will discuss how she coaches students to help them learn how to “wow” employers by communicating skills they’ve learned through language study and by creating a personal brand that highlights their language skills and international experiences.
Webinar Slides Accessible Here
“It’s Something Out of My Imagination”: Latina Undergraduates Envisioning the Future Through Testimonio
October 2024
Join Dr. Lauren Contreras for a discussion of her research in which Latina undergraduates use testimonios and first-person narrative vision boards to process the oppression they have faced within higher education. Learn how these students affirmed their higher education aspirations and came to believe their dreams could become a reality, leading to the healing of their bodymindspirit. This webinar will help higher education professionals learn to better understand Latina undergraduate experiences with oppression and their aspirations, giving them knowledge and skills to create programs and policies that ameliorate the struggles they face and support their dreams.
Transforming Leadership Through Kindness & Community
October 2024
We have many opportunities to change patterns of exclusion and inclusion in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM). With this in mind, Dr. Estrada will describe findings from her research program in which she has longitudinally tracked and examined what types of mentorship, training experiences, and supports that result in students integrating into their professional fields and persisting in STEM career pathways. Her research focuses on the experiences of persons historically excluded because of ethnicity and race. Further, she will offer practical exercises that educators and institutions can use to increase kindness cues that affirm social inclusion in our daily lives.