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What are the experiences of career advisors in a 2-year college?

Posted on February 18, 2019 by arivera3

By: Mun Yuk Chin As the world of work continues to evolve, higher education institutions are increasingly scrutinized for their capacity to bolster students’ career development.[1] Unsurprisingly, career services offices face heightened focus and pressure …

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“What kind of Asian are you?”: Institutional invisibility of the HMoob American College Paj Ntaub

Posted on December 13, 2018 by mswolfgram

“As an Asian American student, I am always asked, ‘What kind of Asian are you?’ When I respond, ‘HMoob,’ I’m asked, ‘What’s HMoob? What country is that?’ But HMoob do not fit the construct of …

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Cultures of risk and the activity format of internship participation

Posted on December 10, 2018 by mswolfgram

The activity theory of work-based learning One of the fascinating things about interviewing students, educators, and employers about their internship experiences is that we are able to learn about how students experience work-based learning. And …

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Access and Barriers to internships for college students

Posted on November 28, 2018 by zchen745

Internship participation is a topic of increasing importance to researchers, practitioners, and policy makers involved in postsecondary education. Data from the Higher Education Research Institute for Undergraduates between 1994 to 2006 showed that the percentage …

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Introducing “Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub”

Posted on November 12, 2018 by mswolfgram

A Poetic Prologue – HMoob not Hmong or Mong “Hmong” spelled as H-m-o-o-b ​reclaims the HMONG part of the Hmong American identity HMOOB acknowledges the authentic pronunciation of the “Hmong” name, heritage, and people “Hmong” …

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Time to consider higher education for refugees

Posted on October 18, 2018 by mswolfgram

The Trump Administration recently announced the Presidential Determination for the new fiscal year, which sets the ceiling for the number refugees admitted through the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program. The determination dropped the ceiling from 45,000 refugees to its historic low of 30,000. But, as low …

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1st Annual Symposium on College Internship Research

Posted on October 3, 2018 by mthora

Last week on Friday September 28th our Center held the 1st Annual Symposium on College Internship Research here at UW-Madison.  It was a great success, with over 100 researchers, students, career services professionals, employers, and …

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The Stories of Higher Education in Wisconsin

Posted on March 23, 2018 by mdscaglione

Questions concerning the purposes and goals of higher education have long been debated. Should higher education be considered a public good or a private benefit? Should it focus on liberal arts or vocational preparation? And whom should higher education serve? Recently, however, …

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A team of UW students are “Documenting the aims of higher education in Wisconsin”

Posted on October 13, 2017 by wpupdater

How do Wisconsinites consider the aims of public higher education in the state? And, what experiences have influenced their thinking on this question? There are many possible aims of higher education, including: To provide students …

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Welcome to the Center!

Posted on August 26, 2017 by wpupdater

When the prospect of starting up a new research center focused on issues related to college student employability came up in the Spring of 2016, it wasn’t clear that the world needed yet another “Center” …

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