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Matthew T. Hora; Zi Chen; Matthew Wolfgram; Jiahong Zhang; Jacklyn John Fischer – Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Internships are widely promoted high-impact practices that can have positive impacts on students' academic and post-graduate success, yet how specific features facilitate these outcomes is understudied. Instead, internships are often studied in terms of mere participation, without recognizing that these experiences are complex pedagogic spaces…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Educational Practices, Student Satisfaction, Cultural Influences
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Hora, Matthew T.; Wolfgram, Matthew; Chen, Zi; Lee, Changhee – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background: Internships for college students can enhance their grades, skills, and employment prospects, but finding and completing an internship sometimes requires considerable resources. Consequently, before postsecondary institutions consider mandating this high-impact practice, more evidence is needed regarding the various obstacles students…
Descriptors: Barriers, Internship Programs, College Students, Black Colleges
Hora, Matthew T.; Wolfgram, Matthew; Chen, Zi – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2019
Internships are widely perceived as a "high-impact practice" that opens the doors of opportunity for college students, yet little is known about obstacles to participation. Instead, educators and employers too often view participation as unproblematic, with many postsecondary institutions beginning to mandate internships for graduation…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Barriers, College Students, Access to Education
Kazis, Richard; Snyder, Nancy – Boston Foundation, 2019
This paper asks the question: Is now the right time to consider a statewide policy initiative to support increased access for Massachusetts community college students to paid internships that can help them improve their employment and earnings trajectory? Is this something that employers, colleges, and state leaders would see as a welcome…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, State Policy, Internship Programs
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Gillian-Daniel, Donald L.; Walz, Kenneth A. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Over the past decade, the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) and Madison Area Technical College (Madison College) partnered to create an internship pathway for graduate students pursuing careers as future science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) faculty members. Since 2003, 10 doctoral students from the university completed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Internship Programs, Graduate Students, STEM Education
American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2006
This publication includes 13 articles: (1) ATE [Advanced Technological Education] Attuned to Global Competition; (2) Materials Science Center Supplies Information on Often-Overlooked Field; (3) CSEC [Cyber Security Education Consortium] Builds Corps of Cyber Technicians; (4) KCTCS [Kentucky Community and Technical College System] Is U.S. Partner…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Technical Education, Community Colleges, Faculty Development