About Us

The mission of the Center for Research on College to Workforce Transitions (CCWT) is to conduct and support research, critical policy analysis, and public dialogue on student experiences with the transition from college to the workforce in order to inform policies, programs, and practices that promote academic and career success for all learners.

CCWT is currently engaged in three distinct yet inter-related areas of inquiry in service of our mission and principles: (1) students’ experiences with college internships and the impact of these programs on their economic, vocational, and psychosocial outcomes; (2) students’ experiences with institutional, cultural, and structural forces that influence their transitions to the workforce; and, (3) the experiences of refugee communities with transitions to higher education and the workforce. 

Publications & News

• August 2019
  CCWT is currently hiring one Qualitative Researcher to play a key role in the growing College Internship Study at UW-Madison for the College Internship Study.
• June 2019
  $1.8 Million Grant to CCWT Expands Study of College Internships & How Students of Color Enter Workforce
• June 2019
  Study on Barriers for Student Internships. A new report out of the University of Wisconsin at Madison shows that students have trouble pursuing internships because they’re preoccupied with work or had too heavy of a course load. Article at Inside Higher Ed.
• June 2019
  Check out this OpEd published in the Hechinger Report by CCWT researchers Matthew Wolfgram, Bailey Smolarek, and the Paj Ntaub Research Team, addressing the factors and struggles that influence HMoob American and other minoritzed college students in the United States.
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