Closing the Doors of Opportunity: How Financial, Sociocultural, and Institutional Barriers Intersect to Inhibit Participation in College Internships
dc.contributor.author | Hora, Matthew T. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Wolfgram, Matthew | en |
dc.contributor.author | Chen Zi | en |
dc.date.accessed | 2020-02-24 | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-17T19:28:26Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-17T19:28:26Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2019-12-01 | en |
dc.description.abstract | 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 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.sponsorship | Wisconsin Center for Education Research | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.identifier.sourceurl | https://wcer.wisc.edu/docs/working-papers/WCER_Working_Paper_No_2019_8.pdf | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/97777 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Wisconsin Center for Education Research | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working Paper; 2019-8 | en |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | en |
dc.subject | internships | en |
dc.subject | equal opportunity in higher education | en |
dc.subject | Historically Black Colleges and Universities | en |
dc.subject | community colleges | en |
dc.title | Closing the Doors of Opportunity: How Financial, Sociocultural, and Institutional Barriers Intersect to Inhibit Participation in College Internships | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
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