Foundational Scholarship
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Cathy Day, Chronicle of Higher Ed., 2025. “Why students shouldn’t think of their majors as an identity.” The Edge: Why students shouldn’t think of their majors as an identity.
Cruess, R. L., Cruess, S. R., Boudreau, J. D., Snell, L., & Steinert, Y. (2015). A schematic representation of the professional identity formation and socialization of medical students and residents: a guide for medical educators. Academic Medicine, 90(6), 718-725. https://www.sap2.org.ar/i2/archivos/1939.pdf
Hora, M.T. (2025). Teaching transferable skills using a sociocultural perspective: A guide for faculty and institutions for creating college courses that highlight disciplinary knowledge, professional norms, and habits of mind. Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Hora, M. (2020). Hiring as Cultural Gatekeeping into Occupational Communities. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/48736185.pdf
Hora, Benbow and Smolarek (2018). Re-thinking Soft Skills and Student Employability: A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00091383.2018.1540819?casa_token=SKrgDBIrq98AAAAA:tstQu5TcMC1mP3QI2t2gbOqnbm_-tvhxhTV7774TQvxujDQfcxV19Xvzy7YMI2M6wPgps6zVwOVLFGte
Tomlinson, M. (2017). Forms of graduate capital and their relationship to graduate employability. https://www.emerald.com/et/article-abstract/59/4/338/102567/Forms-of-graduate-capital-and-their-relationship?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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