The University of South Dakota Cooperative Field Education Program (CFEP) serves to supplement existing classroom study with related, credited field experience. The field experience is to: (1) give the student an opportunity to apply academic study to actual work experience; (2) open up new areas of interest, study and employment for the student; (3) make the student more attractive, because of his field experience, to a potential employer; and (4) provide potential employers with an opportunity to recognize the worth and value of the individual student and others like him. This document presents a report of the first year of the CFEP and offers recommendations for its future. (Author/HS)