Closing the Doors of Opportunity: How Financial, Sociocultural, and Institutional Barriers Intersect to Inhibit Participation in College Internships

dc.contributor.authorHora, Matthew T.en
dc.contributor.authorWolfgram, Matthewen
dc.contributor.authorChen Zien
dc.date.accessed2020-02-24en
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-17T19:28:26Zen
dc.date.available2020-04-17T19:28:26Zen
dc.date.issued2019-12-01en
dc.description.abstractInternships 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 in many colleges and universities. This study reports findings from surveys (n = 1,549) and focus groups (n= 100) with students at five diverse postsecondary institutions that include a community college, a Historically Black College and University, and three comprehensive universities. Given the financial, structural, and even spatial forces that inhibit the ability of many college students to pursue and then complete an internship, the authors argue that postsecondary institutions should not mandate or advocate for internships until and unless they address these obstacles to internship participation. Ultimately, colleges and universities must work to ensure that internships do not reproduce privilege and exacerbate inequality.en
dc.description.sponsorshipWisconsin Center for Education Researchen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttps://wcer.wisc.edu/docs/working-papers/WCER_Working_Paper_No_2019_8.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/97777en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWisconsin Center for Education Researchen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Paper; 2019-8en
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United Statesen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/en
dc.subjectinternshipsen
dc.subjectequal opportunity in higher educationen
dc.subjectHistorically Black Colleges and Universitiesen
dc.subjectcommunity collegesen
dc.titleClosing the Doors of Opportunity: How Financial, Sociocultural, and Institutional Barriers Intersect to Inhibit Participation in College Internshipsen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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