This report focuses on one of the State University of New York's (SUNY's) applied learning initiatives that includes work-based activities, e.g., co-ops, internships, work study, and clinical placement (SUNY Works). With funds from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, SUNY asked the Rockefeller Institute of Government to examine applied…

This report covers the first year (July 1967-June 1968) of a 2-year cooperative education program. During this time, 359 students were enrolled in courses in aviation, business, education, physical and natural science, engineering, general technical, and liberal arts; another 84 were in a special V.A. Hospital project. The design and objectives…

Article detailed the money being spent on programs designed to give students the opportunity to work at jobs closely related to their career goals, individual interests, or academic fields of study. (Author/RK)

This 1968 feasibility study of a cooperative education plan for students wanting careers in distribution is limited to College of San Mateo and 50 employers in the area. Although other plans have been developed, the most promising allows two students to fill a full-time work station--one student enrolled for the semester, the other working full…

This is the first annual report of a 3-year exemplary project, financed by the U.S. Office of Education to prove that vocational cooperative education--a community college plan for career preparation through classroom study and off-campus, paid work experience--is an effective solution to the problems of student motivation, educational relevance,…

Two carefully planned programs operating within traditional classroom frameworks, have been unusually successful. The first, developed in Stoughton, Massachusetts, a lower middle-class community in the Boston area, uses a field-based approach. The second, initiated in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, an upper middle-class suburb of Philadelphia, employs a…

Voices concerns about the way the cooperative education program is being handled in Canada. Outlines the history of the program and discusses methods for implementation. (JOW)

Considerably broader in scope than the usual cooperative education project, the Community Learning Program at a Florissant, Missouri, high school exposes students to the widest possible range of skills and professions in the area. (Author/MLF)

Educational institutions and the functional units of the criminal justice system have not been well coordinated. Working on the assumption that education and training are complimentary processes, there is a current attempt to bring these processes together in a single concept called "work experience." The purpose of this document is to…

At La Guardia Community College, work-study is mandatory for every student. (PG)

Technical Education is a bimonthly publication of Industrial Arts and Vocational Education. (GB)

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;…