Carrie Shandra

For the last three decades, generations of students with less privilege have been excluded from internships—and the types of opportunities for career success that internships can provide. New analyses @sociusjournal 1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

And a great read by @JessGrose that shows how teacher training internships can be made more financially sustainable for students. Colleges can change. nytimes.com/2023/09/13/opi…

Not all internships are created equally, and paid positions are better for equity and for employment outcomes. It's time to stop normalizing experience as "payment" in higher education. #UnpaidisUnfair

@alannagillis3 @SociusJournal Thank you, times two! Happy to share resources from my Soc of Work class if they'd be useful--on internships more broadly but also legal precarity and best practices as tools for student advocacy.

@CarrieShandra @SociusJournal Super important work! I’m excited to cite it and to add it to my Sociology of Careers course. Congrats!

For the last three decades, generations of students with less privilege have been excluded from internships—and the types of opportunities for career success that internships can provide. New analyses @sociusjournal 1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

These pronounced, ongoing participation gaps for students with less individual and institutional privilege underscore the need to consider internship access as a form of educational and labor market disadvantage. 6/

But internships are also a mark of institutional privilege. Students from high-selectivity, versus lower-selectivity, colleges were more than 10 percentage points more likely to participate. That’s a sizeable gap, and one observed in every year since the Great Recession. 5/

Planning doesn't pay off equally for all young women, and @jesshardie uses longitudinal interviews to tell their stories and show us why. Now available for preorder 👇

And if you want a deeper dive into the research on supporting students in internships, @matt_hora and the @CCWT_UWMadison team has that, too ccwt.wisc.edu/wp-content/upl…

Faculty friends! If you're supervising for-credit unpaid internships this semester, your students may not have as many workplace protections as you think. Required reading by @Rainesford @TeenVogue

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@payourinterns @matt_hora @bdernberger @andrewcrain I have a book's worth of thoughts on this, but in the interim, I'd start with policy change around the interpretation and regulation of the Fair Labor Standards Act--particularly the inclusion of academic credit as one of the factors in the "test" for unpaid internships.

Would love your thoughts on this @matt_hora @CarrieShandra @bdernberger @andrewcrain

Can we talk about how higher ed literally benefits from unpaid internships? A loophole used by employers is using college credits in lieu of payment. Meaning students pay thousands of dollars to their university (college credits) to then work for free.

@Rainesford Thank YOU for naming unpaid internships as one of the many challenges that come with navigating young adulthood. An Ordinary Age is on my nightstand as we speak, and I can't wait to recommend it to my students!

And, unsurprisingly from an author of a book on the science and art of interviewing, the narrative is beautifully crafted and the analysis is sociologically rich. The reader is left with an update on participants and food for thought on improving unemployment policies. 6/

The guilt gap is especially concerning now, as women have been disproportionately affected by unemployment in the current "she-cession". Tolls tells the gendered story of these downstream consequences in women's own words. 5/ @Alisha__g nytimes.com/2021/05/28/us/…

I'm so excited to see @Sarahdamaske's The Tolls of Uncertainty in the world. It's a book about the US unemployment system and how gender and class matter for job search. Here's why it should be on your summer reading list (and, if you're in the classroom, your syllabi). 1/