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.