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) Community Based Participatory Action Research on students’ experiences with institutional, cultural, and structural forces that influence their transitions to the workforce; and, (3) educational and outreach activities that build community and disseminate actionable knowledge to policymakers, practitioners, researchers and students regarding college-workforce topics.

If you would like to get in touch please use the following contacts.

• For press and professional inquiries email amy.rivera@wisc.edu or call 608-265-2860
• For general inquiries email: ccwt@wcer.wisc.edu

Publications & News

• March 2021
  CCWT grantee Adrian Huerta releases policy brief on minoritized student parents
• February 2021
  Hora & Thompson publish essay in The Conversation on unpaid internships
• February 2021
  CCWT announces launch of National Survey of College Internships in October 2021
• December 2020
  Results from the 1-year longitudinal follow-up analysis for the College Internship Study at Madison College
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