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.
DeafTEC Ready: Unlocking Potential Among the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
April 2024
For the deaf and hard-of-hearing, getting considered for employment opportunities is a longstanding challenge. In the tech industry, their participation is even less so. What accounts for their under-representation? How can employers seeking tech talent be engaged? Which approaches work better than others? Session attendees, especially career services professionals and any employers present, will learn about CompTIA’s partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf to certify and place deaf and hard-of-hearing students into paid training-related roles. Obstacles, setbacks, and successes will be shared, and as approaches continue to be developed as well as tried, session attendees will also be invited to share their experiences in a collegial and open setting.
May 2024
Not All Internships are Created Equal: Research Findings and Strategies to Enhance Internship Experiences and Outcomes
Dr. Ran Liu & Dr. Mindi Thompson
In this webinar, Dr. Ran Liu and Dr. Mindi Thompson delve into the critical disparities characterizing college students’ internship experiences and outcomes, focusing on differences in supervision quality, student satisfaction, paid vs. unpaid internships, and their impacts on career outcomes. Synthesizing findings from CCWT’s college internship study, data from the National Survey of College Internships (NSCI), and other literature, we discuss how these disparities also vary according to students’ socio-demographic backgrounds. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the prevalence of internship disparities and actionable insights on strategies to promote equitable internship experiences for all students.
Racialized Poverty Among College Students: Intersecting with First-Generation College Students Status and Paid Internship Opportunities
April 2024
Researchers and career counselors have become increasingly interested in understanding college students’ experiences of poverty and identifying the role of paid internship opportunities in poverty experiences based on structural, cultural, and historical dynamics. Drawing from data from CCWT, Dr. Kim will explain multidimensional poverty and display different structures and natures of poverty that college students experience across racial identities. She will also explain if first-generation college students are more vulnerable to racialized poverty and if paid internship opportunities would alleviate poverty experiences and provide reflection questions and future directions highlighting ways to support invisible student groups with intersecting identities.
empowHER: A Mentoring Program for Women in the WI Building Trades
March 2024
In this webinar, Dr. Ericka Wills discusses the empowHER mentoring program, which was established in 2019 to normalize the role of, support, and retain women in the construction industry and recruit more women into union construction careers. She discusses the scholarship regarding mentoring, the collaborative process of designing and launching the program, and offers examples of activities to demonstrate the unique issues women face in male-dominated industries.
Empowering Students to Prioritize Their Safety in Experiential Learning – Kaila Bingen
February 2024
Thousands of students engage in experiential learning every year, yet institutions vary in how they prepare students for these experiences. In this webinar, you will reflect on how your institution prepares students for experiential learning and evaluate what resources are available to staff, faculty, and students related to sexual harassment and microaggressions. Participants will gain understanding of their liability and responsibilities related to student safety by previewing a brand new, fully virtual, highly engaging training titled, “Safety and Empowerment for Experiential Learning: Professional Behavior and Appropriate Boundaries.” Developed by University of Wisconsin-Parkside in partnership with Universities of Wisconsin and Dynamic Training Resources, this training will improve equity for students engaged in experiential learning and equips students with the knowledge and tools to advocate for their own and others’ safety and well-being in professional spaces. UW-Parkside generously makes this resource accessible by offering it at flexible pricing (free for Universities of WI schools).
Introduction to Tune In to Strive Out Facilitator Training
January 2024
This 20-minute on-demand training is designed for postsecondary educators, advisors, and administrators in academic and career services, health services, student organizations, student support services, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. The workshop is led by members of the Tuned in Labs team housed within CCWT. Our team consists of faculty and students in counseling and vocational psychology who have published widely on career development and mental health among individuals from diverse and underrepresented groups.
Undergraduate Research Program Experiences and Outcomes – Daniel Corral
December 2023
Join Dr. Daniel Corral as he describes his findings from a recent systematic review of undergraduate research experiences, or UREs. Hosted by UW Madison’s CCWT.
Redefining Success: When Students in College Transition Programs Choose to Leave – Dr. Mun Yuk Chin & Dr. Moi Padilla
November 2023
This webinar re-examines dominant assumptions of student success and the methods we use to support students who are contemplating leaving college.
The College to Workforce Transition for Immigrant Origin Latino/a Young Adults – Vanessa Delgado
September 2023
Children of immigrants now make up a significant proportion of young adults who pursue college degrees; however, we know very little about their transition from college to the workforce. In this webinar, Dr. Delgadol explored how college-educated immigrant-origin Latino/a young adults transitioned into the world of work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Longitudinal qualitative data to underscores how immigration policies, COVID-19, education-occupation mismatches, and low socioeconomic origins complicate the workforce transitions for college-educated Latinos/as. Implications of the research and practical solutions were discussed
Advancing Community Cultural Wealth: Engaging with Asset-Based Frameworks – Trevor McCray
August 2023
In this 60-minute introductory workshop, Dr. Trevor McCray guides participants through various asset-based frameworks, including CCWT’s own research in Community Cultural Wealth, how CCWT utilizes asset-based frameworks, and tools that will help participants implement the concept in their own work.
Teaching Transferable Skills in College Classrooms: A Cultural Scripts Approach – Matthew Hora
May 2023
The dominant “soft skills” and career readiness discourses do not adequately address the types of skills, instruction, and guidance our students need to thrive in their careers. Learn how to teach critical transferable skills to college students using a cultural approach to teaching and learning in this February workshop video from Dr. Matthew T. Hora of UW–Madison’s Center for Research on College-Workforce Transition (CCWT).
April 2023
In this 2023 CCWT Spring Seminar Series session, Dr. Matthew Hora talks to Dr. Adrianna Kezar from USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education about how organizational change, campus culture, and the political landscape may impact career readiness initiatives. They share audience questions to discuss timely issues, such as centralized versus decentralized structures and the tools and resources available thanks to research being done at both CCWT and the Pullias Center as well as many other innovative labs.