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.
A conversation with Dr. Jenny Chan on Internships and Labor in China
January 13, 2021
In this webinar Dr. Jenny Chan from Hong Kong Polytechnic University talked with CCWT Director Matthew Hora about her newly published book, Dying for an iPhone (2020; Haymarket Books), and its key findings regarding the status of high school and college internships in China and how they involve the production of Apple’s popular devices including iPhones and iPads. Dr. Chan also spoke about the state of the labor market in China since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, and her new research on express delivery workers in China.
The Interplay of Proactive Personality & Internship Quality in Chinese University Graduates’ Job Search Success: The Role of Career Adaptability
November 18, 2020
Dr. Matthew T. Hora talked with Dr. Jingzhou Pan and Dr. Yanjun Guan about how and when internship quality can lead to students’ job search success. Dr. Pan and Dr. Guan introduced their study in which they tracked a sample of Chinese university graduates’ internship and job search process by conducting a four-wave survey study that demonstrated the beneficial effect of internship quality on employment success, and the mediating effect of career adaptability (an important psychological resource) on the relationship between proactive personality and students’ employment outcomes. Dr. Yanjun Guan is a professor in management at Durham University Business School, UK. Yanjun’s research areas include career management and cross-cultural management, and he is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Journal of Vocational Behavior. Dr. Jingzhou Pan is an associate professor in organizational behavior at Tianjin University in China. Jingzhou’s research interests include leadership, creativity and innovation and career management.
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Improving Academic Outcomes & Successful Workforce Transitions
November 11, 2020
In this webinar, University of Wisconsin—Madison graduate student researcher Anthony Hernandez interviewed Excelencia in Education CEO and co-founder Deborah Santiago about Latino student achievement, research on educational practices and advancing institutional practices, creating a national network of stakeholders, Latino student transition to the workforce, and policy and funding priorities. Deborah A. Santiago is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Excelencia in Education. For more than 20 years, she has led efforts from the community to national and federal levels to improve educational opportunities and success for all students. Anthony Hernandez is a doctoral student in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2019, he was awarded a National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Foundation Research Development Award for his dissertation work on leadership in Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs).
Living Hmong Studies, Building the Field with Dr. Mai See Thao
November 2020
In this webinar, student researchers from the Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub research study interviewed Dr. Mai See Thao, who the Director of the newly created University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Hmong Studies program and as Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Global Religions, and Cultures. In addition to discussing her vision of Hmong Studies at UW-Oshkosh and her community-based research with Hmong, Dr. Thao also discussed her personal experiences as a former Hmong American UW-Madison undergraduate student and her path to becoming a Hmong academic. Mai See Thao is a trained medical anthropologist with research interests in historical trauma, displacement, the refugee body, biopolitics, care (long-term care and chronic disease management), and community-based participatory research. She is also the new Director of Hmong Studies and Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Global Religions, and Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
CCWT Special Guest Carmella Ocampo
August 5, 2020
The Role of Internship Participation and Conscientiousness in Developing Career Adaptability: A Five-Wave Growth Mixture Model Analysis In this webinar, CCWT’s Zi Chen spoke with Carmella Ocampo, the lead author of a new study on the impacts of internship participation on a widely studied psycho-social variable in vocational psychology—that of career adaptability—which refers to the psychological resources one has to deal with uncertain and evolving situations. Since our current moment of the COVID-19 pandemic and a looming recession will create such an uncertain and difficult situation for college graduates, understanding the experiences and resources that can help students develop these resources will be critically important.
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.