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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CCWT Discussion with Leopold Bayerlein
July 1, 2020
Dr. Hora talked with Dr. Bayerlein about his recent research on online or e-internships, with a focus on how these new learning environments can best be designed to enhance student learning. The conversation covered Dr. Bayerlein’s interest in work-integrated learning (WIL) that can take place within formal postsecondary courses and programs.
What Employers Want from Interns: Demand-Side Trends in the Internship Market – with Carrie Shandra
June 24, 2020
Dr. Carrie Shandra’s discussed her recent research on employer demand for interns, and the types of skills they are seeking in college interns. CCWT Director Matthew Hora and Dr. Shandra also talked about how the Great Recession impacted employers’ demand for interns, and then audience members can ask questions.
A Discussion with Julia Freeland Fisher
June 10, 2020
Dr. Hora spoke with Dr. Julia Freeland Fisher about why social capital matters for college students, whether colleges do a good job in fostering students’ social capital, how internships & micro-internships may foster professional networks and social capital.
All Internships are Not Created Equal with Dr. Sean Edmund Rogers
June 3, 2020
Dr. Hora talks with Dr. Rogers about his latest research on unpaid internships, student veterans and internships, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on college-workforce transitions.
Internships and Vocational Skills Training in China – Jenny Chan
December 4, 2019
China has the world’s largest vocational education system. The number of vocational high school students (aged 16-18), however, dropped from a peak of 22.4 million in 2010 to 15.5 million in 2018, that is, about 40% of the national student population. By contrast, the number of high school students remained fairly stable over the same period, hovering at around 24 million. This project seeks to understand the internship experiences of Chinese teenage students. Under the existing system, a 6-month workplace-based internship training is mandatory for three-year vocational education program. The legal status of interns remains that of students, not employees. The educational and labor rights of interns are worthy of scholarly attention. Jenny Chan (Ph.D. 2014) is an assistant professor of sociology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a recipient of Early Career Scheme funding awarded by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (2018-2022). She also serves as the vice president of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Labor Movements (2018-2022). Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s Workers is her first co-authored book with Mark Selden and Pun Ngai (Haymarket Books & Pluto Press, 2020).
2019 Internship Symposium – Dean Hess Welcome Remarks
2019 Symposium on College Internship Research
October 23rd & 24th
Pyle Center, UW-Madison, WI
2019 Internship Symposium – Keynote Ross Perlin
Author: Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy”
2019 Symposium on College Internship Research
October 23rd & 24th
Pyle Center, UW-Madison, WI
2019 Internship Symposium – Latreace Wells, Darryl Ann Watkins, Valeria Green
Focus on HBCUs: How the Unique Nature of HBCUs Influences Internship Design and Skills
2019 Symposium on College Internship Research
October 23rd & 24th
Pyle Center, UW-Madison, WI