Aligned with CCWT’s mission to conduct research and develop tools, resources, and educational programming to improve career wellness and development outcomes for students, we leverage our expertise in career development, career exploration, work-based learning, mental health and assets to develop and test resources, tools, and curricula aimed to support students’ career readiness and career wellness skills to navigate the transition to the workforce.
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Career Readiness Across the Curriculum
One of the hottest topics in higher education is the value of competencies that are called “soft skills,” “career readiness skills” or “21st century skills,” for students’ success in school, life, and work. Based on decades of research by CCWT investigators regarding active learning, skills gaps, workforce skills needs, internships, and institutional change processes in higher education, CCWT Founder Professor Matthew Hora has developed a set of resources and training programs to teach skills needed to embed career readiness across a college students’ experience. To date, over 1,500 postsecondary educators and support staff have completed the 21st Century Skills EdX/WisconsinX course and his recent publication “Teaching Transferable Skills Using a Sociocultural Perspective: A guide for faculty and institutions for creating college courses that highlight disciplinary knowledge, professional norms, and habits of mind” has been widely shared.
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Tune In to Strive Out Career Wellness Program
The Tune in to Strive Out Career Wellness Program is a 5-module program designed to help students cultivate, realize, and channel their inner potential in pursuit of meaningful careers and collective well-being. The program highlights the importance of strengths, hope, and self-knowledge, ensuring that students not only prepare for their careers but do so in alignment with their values and lived experiences. Program development was led by CCWT Director Professor Mindi Thompson, who engaged students to co-create and test program components. It is an empirically and theoretically supported career wellness program designed to empower students by equipping them with self-knowledge, resilience, and actionable strategies to navigate challenges and draw upon their strengths to build critical career readiness skills. To date, the program has been delivered to more than 150 undergraduate students at institutions across the U.S. and more than 90 student support professionals have completed the Tune in To Strive Out Facilitator Training, which provides resources and training materials to successfully deliver the program to their students. The program was recently featured in Inside Higher Ed.
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The Networks & Cultural Assets Project (NCA)
Measuring Students’ Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) and Social Networks
The Networks and Cultural Assets Project (NCA) administers survey and interview instruments to measure students’ Community Cultural Wealth (Yosso, 2005) and social networks. These tools and resources have been developed to share with educators to support the academic and career development of students via survey instruments, workshops, and the dissemination of findings from longitudinal studies of CCW and Social Networks.
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CCWT Publications
CCWT consistently publishes research, tools, and frameworks and makes them freely accessible via a searchable database on our website. This allows anyone with interest or need to access data that has been analyzed and synthesized by objective and qualified scientists.
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