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Building New Roots: Growing PAR in a New Context with Julissa Ventura, Marquette University
2021-02-22 11:00 (America/Chicago)
Monday, February 22, 2021, 11a.m. CST (US)
Part of the Spring 2021 Webinar Series: Participatory Action Research in Practice
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Uneven Experiences and Rewards in the Intern Economy: The Case of Arts and Design Graduates
2021-02-17 11:00
Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 11a.m. CST (US)
Special Guest: Alexandre Frenette, Assistant Professor of Sociology & Associate Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University
Drawing on survey data with 200,000 arts and design alumni, Dr. Alex Frenette from Vanderbilt University talked with CCWT Director Dr. Matthew Hora about the rise of paid and especially unpaid internships in the creative sector, how arts graduates feel about their internship experiences, how these alumni say higher education could improve internships going forward, and how gender may shape unequal intern-to-career pathways.
Alexandre Frenette is an assistant professor of sociology and associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University. Using the music industry as his case study, he is currently working on a monograph about the challenges and the promise of internships as part of higher education. His writing on artistic workers and the intern economy have won awards from the Society for the Study of Social Problems as well as the Labor and Employment Relations Association.
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A Discussion with Amanda Chase on The Impact of Identity and Social, Economic, and Cultural Capital on College Student Internship Engagement
2021-01-27 11:00
Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 11a.m. CST (US)
Special Guest: Dr. Amanda Chase, University of Vermont
In this webinar, Dr. Amanda Chase of the University of Vermont spoke with CCWT Researcher Dr. Zi Chen on the impact of identity, social, economic, and cultural capital on college Internships. Though lacking access to internships may seem like a mere inconvenience, internships are often the gateways into particular careers and industries. If certain groups of students are excluded from internships on the basis of income, race/ethnicity or social connections, then the experiences and perspectives of too many college students will not be represented in the nation’s companies, organizations and government agencies.
Dr. Amanda Chase coordinates internships for the University of Vermont in the Career Center and the University’s new Office of Engagement. Her research interests are focused on issues of access and equity in internships and experiential learning. She wrote a quantitative doctoral dissertation on this topic and earned her Ed.D in May 2020.
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A Discussion with Becca Schwartz on Current Issues with Refugee Resettlement in Wisconsin
2021-01-26 15:00
Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 3p.m. CST (US)
Part of the Spring 2021 Webinar Series: Supporting Higher Education and Career Success for Refugees in Wisconsin w/CCWT Associate Researcher Dr. Matthew Wolfgram
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A conversation with Dr. Jenny Chan on Internships and Labor in China
2021-01-13 11:00
Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 11a.m. CST (US)
Special Guest: Dr. Jenny Chan, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
In this webinar Dr. Jenny Chan from Hong Kong Polytechnic University talked with CCWT Director Matthew Hora about her newly published book, Dying for an iPhone (2020; Haymarket Books), and its key findings regarding the status of high school and college internships in China and how they involve the production of Apple’s popular devices including iPhones and iPads. Dr. Chan also spoke about the state of the labor market in China since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, and her new research on express delivery workers in China.
Dr. Jenny Chan, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is a recipient of Early Career Scheme funding awarded by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (2018-2022). She also serves as the vice president of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Labor Movements (2018-2022). Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s Workers is her first co-authored book with Mark Selden and Pun Ngai (Haymarket Books & Pluto Press, forthcoming in 2020).
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The Interplay of Proactive Personality & Internship Quality in Chinese University Graduates’ Job Search Success: The Role of Career Adaptability
2020-11-18 11:00
Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 11a.m. CST (US)
Special Guests: Dr. Yanjun Guan, Professor in Management at Durham University Business School, UK; Dr. Jingzhou Pan, Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior at Tianjin University
Dr. Matthew T. Hora talkedwith Dr. Jingzhou Pan and Dr. Yanjun Guan about how and when internship quality can lead to students’ job search success. Dr. Pan and Dr. Guan introduced their study in which they tracked a sample of Chinese university graduates’ internship and job search process by conducting a four-wave survey study that demonstrated the beneficial effect of internship quality on employment success, and the mediating effect of career adaptability (an important psychological resource) on the relationship between proactive personality and students’ employment outcomes.
Dr. Yanjun Guan is a professor in management at Durham University Business School, UK. Yanjun’s research areas include career management and cross-cultural management, and he is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Journal of Vocational Behavior.
Dr. Jingzhou Pan is an associate professor in organizational behavior at Tianjin University in China. Jingzhou’s research interests include leadership, creativity and innovation and career management.
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Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): Improving Academic Outcomes and Successful Workforce Transitions
2020-11-11 11:00
Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 11a.m. CST (US)
Special Guest: Deborah Santiago, CEO and co-founder of Excelencia in Education
In this webinar, University of Wisconsin—Madison graduate student researcher Anthony Hernandez interviewed Excelencia in Education CEO and co-founder Deborah Santiago about Latino student achievement, research on educational practices and advancing institutional practices, creating a national network of stakeholders, Latino student transition to the workforce, and policy and funding priorities.
Deborah A. Santiago is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Excelencia in Education. For more than 20 years, she has led efforts from the community to national and federal levels to improve educational opportunities and success for all students.
Anthony Hernandez is a doctoral student in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2019, he was awarded a National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Foundation Research Development Award for his dissertation work on leadership in Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs).
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Internship Opportunities in Community and Tribal Colleges
2020-10-07 11:00
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
11am CST (US)
Special Guests: Julie E. Lucero, University of Nevada, Reno; Special Guest: Crystal LoudHawk-Hedgepeth, American Indian College Fund
Dr. Hora talked with Julie and Crystal about internship opportunities and characteristics, career prep and readiness, and Tribal College social-economic structures.
Julie E. Lucero is an Assistant Professor, School of Community Health Sciences, and Director, Latino Research Center, at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research is grounded in the community based participatory approach to research. Directing her research is the expectation that research outcomes benefit the researched population through development and implementation of interventions, treatment, and/or policy.
Crystal LoudHawk-Hedgepeth, enrolled member of the Dine’ Nation, is a Research Associate at the American Indian College Fund, where she helps execute the College Fund’s systematic research initiatives with Tribal Colleges. Crystal has over ten years of research experience managing projects from clinical investigations to educational research.
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Living Hmong Studies, building the field: Dr. Mai See Thao on Hmong refugee experiences and growing Hmong Studies
2020-08-24 13:00
Monday, August 24, 2020
1pm CST (US)
Special Guest: Dr. Mai See Thao, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
In this webinar, student researchers from the Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub research study interviewed Dr. Mai See Thao, who the Director of the newly created University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Hmong Studies program and as Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Global Religions, and Cultures. In addition to discussing her vision of Hmong Studies at UW-Oshkosh and her community-based research with Hmong, Dr. Thao also discussed her personal experiences as a former Hmong American UW-Madison undergraduate student and her path to becoming a Hmong academic.
Mai See Thao is a trained medical anthropologist with research interests in historical trauma, displacement, the refugee body, biopolitics, care (long-term care and chronic disease management), and community-based participatory research. She is also the new Director of Hmong Studies and Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Global Religions, and Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
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E-internships and work-integrated learning in higher education
2020-07-01 15:00
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
3pm CST
Dr. Leopold Bayerlein (University of New England in Australia)
Dr. Hora talked with Dr. Bayerlein about his recent research on online or e-internships, with a focus on how these new learning environments can best be designed to enhance student learning. The conversation covered Dr. Bayerlein’s interest in work-integrated learning (WIL) that can take place within formal postsecondary courses and programs.
Dr. Leopold Bayerlein is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at the University of New England in Australia. He is an active business and accounting education researcher with a focus on the development of future focused curricula in higher education, and has recently conducted research on e-internships, work-integrated learning, and instructional design in postsecondary institutions. For more information see Dr. Bayerlein’s webpage here.
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What Employers Want from Interns: Demand-Side Trends in the Internship Market
2020-06-24 11:00
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
11am CST
Dr. Carrie Shandra (Stony Brook Univ)
Dr. Carrie Shandra’s discussed her recent research on employer demand for interns, and the types of skills they are seeking in college interns. CCWT Director Matthew Hora and Dr. Shandra also talked about how the Great Recession impacted employers’ demand for interns, and then audience members can ask questions.
Dr. Shandra’s research is broadly focused on understanding work and life course inequalities in the United States, particularly as they occur during the transition to adulthood and among individuals with disabilities. Her research on work includes both paid employment and other forms of productivity that may not be compensated in the market – including care work, housework, and volunteering.
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How Social Capital and Professional Networks Gained in College Internships Enhances Student Success
2020-06-10 11:00
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
11am CST
Dr. Julia Freeland Fisher (Christensen Institute)
Hora spoke with Dr. Julia Freeland Fisher about why social capital matters for college students, whether colleges do a good job in fostering students’ social capital, how internships and micro-internships may foster professional networks and social capital.
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All Internships are Not Created Equal: Job Design, Satisfaction, and Vocational Development in Paid and Unpaid Internships
2020-06-03 11:00
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
11am CST
Hosted by Matthew Hora, with special guest Dr. Sean Edmund Rogers from the University of Rhode Island
Dr. Hora talked with Dr. Rogers about his latest research on unpaid internships, student veterans and internships, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on college-workforce transitions.
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The Role of Internship Participation and Conscientiousness in Developing Career Adaptability: A Five-Wave Growth Mixture Model Analysis
2020-04-05 15:00
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
3pm CST
Special Guest: Carmella Ocampo (Australian National University)
In this webinar, CCWT’s Zi Chen spoke with Carmella Ocampo, the lead author of a new study on the impacts of internship participation on a widely studied psycho-social variable in vocational psychology—that of career adaptability—which refers to the psychological resources one has to deal with uncertain and evolving situations. Since our current moment of the COVID-19 pandemic and a looming recession will create such an uncertain and difficult situation for college graduates, understanding the experiences and resources that can help students develop these resources will be critically important.
Carmella Ocampo is a PhD Candidate in Organizational Behavior in the Research School of Management at the Australian National University. At the broad level, Carell studies how personality traits, emotional abilities, and social contexts support or stifle individual goal pursuit efforts in the context of work and careers.
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Internships and Vocational Skills Training in China with Jenny Chan
2019-12-04 09:30
Wednesday, December 4, 2019 • 9:30am
The Wisconsin Idea room (Education Building #159)
China has the world’s largest vocational education system. The number of vocational high school students (aged 16-18), however, dropped from a peak of 22.4 million in 2010 to 15.5 million in 2018, that is, about 40% of the national student population. By contrast, the number of high school students remained fairly stable over the same period, hovering at around 24 million. This project seeks to understand the internship experiences of Chinese teenage students. Under the existing system, a 6-month workplace-based internship training is mandatory for three-year vocational education program. The legal status of interns remains that of students, not employees. The educational and labor rights of interns are worthy of scholarly attention.
Jenny Chan (Ph.D. 2014) is an assistant professor of sociology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a recipient of Early Career Scheme funding awarded by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (2018-2022). She also serves as the vice president of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Labor Movements (2018-2022). Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s Workers is her first co-authored book with Mark Selden and Pun Ngai (Haymarket Books & Pluto Press, forthcoming in 2020).
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How Undergraduate Student Parents Make Decisions About Course-Taking, Majors, Jobs, and Careers
2019-11-05 10:00
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 • 10:00am
Light refreshments provided
Co-sponsored with the Institute for Research on Poverty
Each week, student-parents must balance work, college classes, and kids that requires a level of skill and strategy to be successful. This mixed-methods study highlights the experiences of student-parents as they persist and navigate an urban community college in Southern California.
Adrian H. Huerta, PhD is an assistant professor in the Pullias Center for Higher Education located in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. Dr. Huerta’s research focuses on boys and young men of color; college access and equity; and gang-associated in the K-16 educational pipeline.
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(Auto)ethnographic perspectives on the college-workforce transition for anthropology majors
2019-10-01 10:00
Tuesday, October 1st 2019 • 10:00am
The Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Building #159
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Daniel Ginsberg is Manager of Education, Research and Professional Development at the American Anthropological Association and Anthropologist in Residence at American University.

What can I do with a degree in anthropology?
2019-09-30 15:30
Monday, September 30, 2019 • 3:30pm
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Daniel Ginsberg is Manager of Education, Research and Professional Development at the American Anthropological Association and Anthropologist in Residence at American University.

Crafting and Marketing Student Experience with Bonnie Urciouli
2019-09-16 10:00
Monday, September 16, 2019 • 10am
The Wisconsin Idea room (Education Building #159)
Informal Meeting for Students
1:30-2:30pm • 5230 Social Science Building • Open to all graduate and undergraduate students
College and university programs that craft student experience have become a major selling point, representing an intersection of student life administration and higher education marketing. For example, “First Year Experience” programs craft student life in ways designed to fit students into the most productive aspects of college life, optimizing the production of an ideal student. That production, understood in terms of measurable outcomes, becomes a major marketing angle for parents worried about their child’s future. Neither perspective takes into account structural inequities shaping student experience, with consequences for at-risk students. Nor do they take seriously the role of faculty, who are neither problem solvers nor career developers.
Bonnie Urciuoli is professor emerita of anthropology at Hamilton College. She has written on race/class ideologies of Spanish–English bilingualism in the U.S., the discursive production and marketing of ‘skills,’ and the construction and marketing of studenthood and student diversity in U.S. higher education. She has published the monograph Exposing Prejudice and the edited volume The Experience of Neoliberal Education, as well as articles in American Ethnologist, Language and Communication, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Signs and Society, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Annual Review of Anthropology, and elsewhere. Flyer.
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Community-Based Participatory Action Research Workshop and Discussion with NYU Professor Dr. Gary Anderson
2019-04-29 14:00 - 15:30
Workshop and Discussion
Monday, April 29, 2019 • 2-3:30pm
On Wisconsin Room, Red Gym
The Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions and the Morgridge Center for Public Service co-sponsored a workshop and discussion with New York University Professor Gary Anderson for UW-Madison students, staff, and faculty who conduct or plan to conduct Community-Based Participatory Action Research.
Gary L. Anderson is Professor of Educational Leadership at NYU Steinhardt. A former high school teacher and principal, he has published on topics such as critical ethnography, participatory action research, new policy networks, and the new professional. His recent books include The Politics of Education Policy in an Era of Inequality with Sonia Horsford & Janelle Scott (2019, Routledge) and The Action Research Dissertation with Kathryn Herr (2014, Sage).
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Participatory Action Research as a Grassroots Challenge to Policy and Practice in Schools and Universities
2019-04-29 10:00
with NYU Professor Dr. Gary Anderson
Monday, April 29, 2019 • 10am
159 Education Building (Wisconsin Idea Room)
The growing popularity of Participatory Action Research (PAR) can be attributed to its commitment to doing research with rather than on or for participants, it’s potential to challenge policy and practice from the bottom up, and its multiple goals of knowledge generation, concrete action, and, critical pedagogy.
This presentation focused on the ways that PAR challenges the current dominance of New Public Management in Schools and Universities and the dominant epistemology of university research.
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Managing Transitions from College to Work: The ‘Employability’ and Career Readiness Challenge
2019-04-10 12:00 - 13:30
with Dr. Michael Tomlinson
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 • 12-1:30pm
Ed Sciences 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Dr. Michael Tomlinson provided a critical overview of the problem and construct of graduates’ employability, charting its evolution and the ways in which it has been conceptually and politically applied in understanding macro-level changes between higher education (HE) systems and the labor market. The talk drew on evidence from the perspectives of students and graduates making the transitions from HE to formal employment, examining the challenges for their career readiness and employment prospects. It explored salient issues relating to the resources, career values, and identities which graduates develop through and beyond HE.
Michael Tomlinson is an Associate Professor at the Southampton Education School at the University of Southampton, UK where he has been based since 2011. His research interests are in higher education policy, the sociology of higher education and the HE-work relationship and has published widely in these fields. His previous books are Education, Work and Identity (2013, Bloomsbury Publishers) and Graduate Employability in Context (2017, Palgrave Publishers).
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Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub
2019-02-01 12:00 - 13:30
Friday, February 1, 2019, 12-1:30 pm
Lunch Provided
A presentation of findings from a student-led research project examining the experiences of HMoob American undergraduate students at UW-Madison.
The “Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub” research team is comprised of Lena Lee, Pangzoo Lee, Myxee Thao, Kia Vang, Odyssey Xiong, Pa Kou Xiong, Pheechai Xiong, and their research mentors Bailey Smolarek, Matthew Wolfgram, and Choua Xiong.
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Internships and Experiential Learning in a Chinese University: A Report from the Field with Matthew Hora
2018-11-05 00:00
November 5, 2018
In this talk Dr. Matthew Hora reported preliminary findings from a recent trip to Tianjin, China where he spent 2.5 weeks conducting a mixed methods study of the relationship between internship program design and student outcomes. Drawing on survey, focus group, and interview data, Dr. Hora provided a comparative and critical analysis of internship programming in China and the US, with a focus on students’ experiences in their internships.
Founding Director of CCWT, Dr. Matthew T. Hora is an Assistant Professor of Adult and Higher Education in the Department of Liberal Arts and Applied Studies at UW–Madison, and a research scientist at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
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The Vocational Significance of Cultural Identity featuring Angela Byars-Winston
2018-10-18 00:00
October 18, 2018
Race/ethnicity are strong predictors of educational outcomes and labor market position (Byars-Winston, Fouad & Wen, 2015). In this presentation, Professor Byars-Winston briefly reviewed the evidence for and vocational relevance of cultural identity. She used the Outline for Cultural Formulation model to illustrate its applicability for career assessment and career counseling integrating the concept of cultural identity for African American students (Byars-Winston, 2010), and concluded the presentation by delineating implications for promoting workforce diversity.
Angela Byars-Winston is a Professor in the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine. She is also the Director of Research and Evaluation in the UW Center for Women’s Health Research and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research.
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The Increasing Underemployment and Decreasing Job Control of Highly Qualified Employees: Implications for Further Training and Workplace Change featuring David Livingstone
2018-04-20 00:00
April 20, 2018
Co-sponsored with the Office of Equity, Sustainability and Democracy.
Highly qualified professional employees are widely regarded as central strategic resources for “knowledge economies”. However, there is mounting evidence that these “knowledge workers” are experiencing both increasing underemployment and decreasing job control, as well as diminishing participation in both further education and job-related informal learning. Prospects for employment and educational reforms to reverse current trends will be assessed.
D.W. Livingstone is Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work and Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto.
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Is There a Skill Gap for Entry-Level IT Positions? Evidence from a National IT Helpdesk Survey featuring Andrew Weaver
2018-04-06 00:00
Co-sponsored with the Office of Equity, Sustainability and Democracy.
April 6, 2018
Some analysts maintain that inadequate worker skills are holding back industry growth. These claims are often reinforced by commentators who assert that technological changes coupled with insufficient education have resulted in a shortage of (STEM) skills. Dr. Weaver used a detailed nationally representative skill survey focusing on computer helpdesk technicians to shed light on these claims.
Andrew Weaver is an Assistant Professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the impact of institutions on labor market outcomes, with a particular focus on industry skill demands and workforce-related public policy issues.
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Reframing Labor: How Evolving Work Experiences Influence Student Success, featuring Dr. Vanessa Sansonne
2018-02-23 00:00
February 23, 2018
There is a commonly held belief that positive college student experiences are best facilitated when societal pressures of finances and work are alleviated, but this is often reserved for only the most privileged. What then for students from underrepresented groups? In this presentation, Dr. Vanessa Sansoone shines a light on the significance and impacts of work for Latinx college students. Dr. Sansoone is Assistant Professor of Higher Education at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
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Classrooms, coffee shops, and counterfactuals: Schooling, skills growth, and the rationalization of hiring, featuring Dr. David Bills
2017-11-10 00:00
(November 10, 2017, in collaboration with the UW-Madison ITP program).
David Bills is Professor of Sociology of Education and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Graduate Programs in the University of Iowa, College of Education. Dr. Bills is an internationally recognized scholar on education and work, labor markets, technological and organizational change, educational demography, and social inequality, and the author of The Sociology of Education and Work (Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2004). In this CCWT Speaker Series event, Dr. Bills presents his research on the processes and consequences of the digital rationalization of the hiring process.
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Dr. David Bills (in collaboration with the UW-Madison ITP program)
2017-11-10 00:00
November 10th, 2017
More information available on the ITP website.
