Influencing undergraduate advisees: Internalization of faculty attitudes on
cooperative education. Journal of
Cooperative Education, 26(1), 6-15.
Youth apprenticeship is more intensive than
cooperative education in terms of all four dimensions, including the investment it requires in organization, planning, and central coordination.
In the private sector, 85 of the Fortune 100 companies (the top companies in the better known Fortune 500) employ co-op students, according to a survey recently done for the Directory of College
Cooperative Education Programs.
Statistics from the National Commission for
Cooperative Education underscore the growing importance of co-op as part of a university education.
"Faculty support is vital to a successful program," says Bob Way,
cooperative education director at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon, "and that support does not always come easily" Traditionally, some of the strongest opposition to
cooperative education has come from college and university faculty concemed by the "vocationalization" of the college curriculum.
Aynah believes that by providing students with greater access to experiential and inclusive
cooperative education, it will empower generations of students to work collaboratively to transform their communities and build a more just and sustainable world.
The reason may appear obvious, but how many youth who complete high school
cooperative education programs or adults who complete community college internship programs really know how to learn on the job?
Internships,
cooperative education, and other types of applied learning experiences give meaning to the student's academic life and the complex world of work.
ACE's mission is to facilitate and communicate the diversity of
cooperative education resources and the people who develop and deliver these resources.
A research and development effort was undertaken to provide definition and validate the emerging role of the Work-Based Learning Teacher Coordinator through the use of a DACUM process in cooperation with the Pennsylvania
Cooperative Education Association with funding support provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Bureau of Career and Technical Education.
