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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Exploring unpaid internships: Issues of access, equity, and learning
April 7, 2022
0:00:00 Panel 1:New research on unpaid internships
0:54:11 Panel 2: Fundraising to subsidize unpaid internships: How can employers, educators, and policymakers secure funds to pay all interns?
1:52:53 Panel 3: Campus based strategies for change: What are some success stories at the campus level for ensuring that all student interns are paid?
2:53:06 Breakout Session: Lightning rounds of more strategies for funding and supporting internships
4:01:19 Next Steps: Working session on developing a national strategy to address unpaid internships
Engaging minority college students in higher education research & advocacy
April, 2021
The Muslim Student Association Research Team: Laela Arman, Maleeha Chughtai, Rozan Deeb, and Khushbakhat Siddiqui
Participatory Action Research as a Grassroots Challenge to Policy and Practice – Gary Anderson
April 29, 2019
The growing popularity of Participatory Action Research (PAR) can be attributed to its commitment to doing research with rather than on or for participants, it’s potential to challenge policy and practice from the bottom up, and its multiple goals of knowledge generation, concrete action, and, critical pedagogy. This presentation focused on the ways that PAR challenges the current dominance of New Public Management in Schools and Universities and the dominant epistemology of university research.
CCWT Webinar Event with Corey Pech
April 14, 2021
In this webinar, CCWT Director Matthew Hora interviewed Dr. Corey Pech, a postdoctoral researcher in Sociology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Pech discussed his book project tentatively titled From College to Career. The book shows, that in fact, most Business and Engineering graduates move seamlessly into jobs that provide good pay but usually involve mundane office work. On the other hand, many English and Communications majors struggle to enter the labor market, and in their post-graduation jobs their skills (while being used) are not treated as valuable. Dr. Pech argues that these disparities arise from differential opportunities to internships that are only available to some majors and that the shift in higher education from promoting the general liberal arts to the more specific practical disciplines is a misguided practice.
CCWT Webinar Event with Jason Perry
March 19, 2021
In this webinar, CCWT Director Matthew Hora discussed the impact of sport management internship programs at historically black college and universities (HBCUs) with Dr. Jason Perry from Howard University. The webinar focused on the potential for the unique culture of HBCUs and students’ experiences and racial identities to impact how they experience an internship, and featured insights from Perry’s 2017 dissertation entitled “A Case Study Examining a Sport and Recreation Management Internship Program at a Historically Black University.”
CCWT Webinar Event with Alex Frenette
February 17, 2021
Drawing on survey data with 200,000 arts and design alumni, Dr. Alex Frenette from Vanderbilt University talked with CCWT Director Dr. Matthew Hora about the rise of paid and especially unpaid internships in the creative sector, how arts graduates feel about their internship experiences, how these alumni say higher education could improve internships going forward, and how gender may shape unequal intern-to-career pathways. Alexandre Frenette is an assistant professor of sociology and associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University. Using the music industry as his case study, he is currently working on a monograph about the challenges and the promise of internships as part of higher education. His writing on artistic workers and the intern economy have won awards from the Society for the Study of Social Problems as well as the Labor and Employment Relations Association.
The Impact of Identity and Social, Economic, and Cultural Capital on College Student Internship Engagement with Dr. Amanda Chase
January 27, 2021
In this webinar, Dr. Amanda Chase of the University of Vermont spoke with CCWT Researcher Dr. Zi Chen on the impact of identity, social, economic, and cultural capital on college Internships. Though lacking access to internships may seem like a mere inconvenience, internships are often the gateways into particular careers and industries. If certain groups of students are excluded from internships on the basis of income, race/ethnicity or social connections, then the experiences and perspectives of too many college students will not be represented in the nation’s companies, organizations and government agencies. Dr. Amanda Chase coordinates internships for the University of Vermont in the Career Center and the University’s new Office of Engagement. Her research interests are focused on issues of access and equity in internships and experiential learning. She wrote a quantitative doctoral dissertation on this topic and earned her Ed.D in May 2020.