And among the people The Chronicle spotlights is UW–Madison’s Matthew Hora and his scholarly research on internships.

Hora is an assistant professor of adult and higher education in the Department of Liberal Arts and Applied Studies, and is an affiliate with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. He is also a research scientist with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), and is the director of UW–Madison’s Center for College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT), housed within WCER.

Hora described to The Chronicle of Higher Education an internship system in China, which typically consists of a two-week program of educational lectures in mornings and subsequent workplace observations. The programs are packed with roughly 200 interns; Hora attests this to the large number of students, universities seeking placements, and the fewer amounts of employers to fit those needs.

The Chronicle of Higher Education notes that most American students have more expansive opportunities, suggested by Hora and CCWT’s research on internships. They specify that the challenge in the American internship system is “ensuring that students of all income levels get the chance to experience them.”

Read the entire Chronicle of Higher Education article, headlined “5 Takeaways from 24 Hours at a Major Teaching Conference,” here.