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

• November 2019
  Bailey Smolarekand Luke Scrivener published a new paper in the Journal of Education Policy: Examining business-driven education reform by new policy actors: a discursive analysis of UpSkill Houston. 
• October 2019
  The Days Of Coffee-Grabbing Internships Are Over. Here's How Fellows And Apprentices Are Changing The Way We Train Our Youngest Workers
• October 2019
  Dr. Bailey Smolarek and Dr. Matthew Wolfgram received $75,000 from the UW-Madison School of Education Grand Challenges competition. This project will expand the Center’s current work on a Participatory Action Research project, and will examine the sociocultural, demographic, and institutional factors that influence the college experiences, educational successes, and post-college transitions of HMoob American students at UW-Madison. More Info.
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