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Re-thinking Soft Skills and Student Employability: A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education

Matthew T. HoraMatthew T. Hora is an Assistant Professor of Adult and Higher Education and the Director of the Center for Research on College-Work Transitions ( http://ccwt.wceruw.org/) at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison. His research and teaching focus on the cultural, organizational, and political forces shaping teaching and learning processes, college-work pathways, and college internship programs.
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Ross J. BenbowRoss J. Benbow is an Associate Researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison. His work focuses on the relationships among teaching and learning, public policy, and cultural transition in domestic and international contexts, with a particular interest in patterns of inequity in colleges and universities.
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Bailey B. SmolarekBailey B. Smolarek is an Associate Researcher with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work draws on critical social theories to examine issues of educational equity from both systemic and localized understandings.
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Leopold Bayerlein, Matthew T Hora, Bonnie A Dean & Stephanie Perkiss. (2021) Developing skills in higher education for post-pandemic work. Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work 31:4, pages 418-429.
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Matthew T. Hora & Changhee Lee. (2021) Does industry experience increase the teaching of “soft” skills in community college classrooms?. New Directions for Community Colleges 2021:195, pages 65-79.
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Matthew T. Hora. (2021) Editor's note. New Directions for Community Colleges 2021:195, pages 7-12.
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Maria Christina Ekström, Eija Raatikainen & Annica Isacsson. (2020) Between despair and joy – emotions in learning. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education 13:1, pages 228-241.
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Matthew T. Hora, Bailey B. Smolarek, Kelly Norris Martin & Luke Scrivener. (2019) Exploring the Situated and Cultural Aspects of Communication in the Professions: Implications for Teaching, Student Employability, and Equity in Higher Education. American Educational Research Journal 56:6, pages 2221-2261.
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