Learning While Earning: Rethinking Student Employment

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Working while in college is fast becoming the norm for today’s students. Forty percent of full-time undergraduates work, with the majority working 20-34 hours a week. Meanwhile, first-generation college students are much more likely than other students to work longer hours and much less likely to secure career-boosting internships. This panel will Explore new models of student work and employment that are disrupting the broken economics of working while in college—and creating meaningful work experience for today’s increasingly diverse college students.