A project was conducted to provide women, minority, veteran, and handicapped college students with a structured cooperative education work experience which would enhance career selection and mobility and provide supervised employment in fields related to the students' interests and academic majors while supplying the employers with trained workers. Seventy-two students were placed in supervised work-training positions with fifty-three participating employers during the 1975-76 academic year. Both the students and employers involved in the project evaluated it positively. Placing handicapped and minority male students at work-training stations proved to be the most difficult task. One hundred seven responses to a questionnaire mailed to 234 community college cooperative education programs indicated that the programs most affected by the 1975-76 economic recession were in the east, south, and central areas of the country and that there was an improvement in the economy in the first quarter of 1976. Eighty-eight responses to an extensive questionnaire sent to 400 local employers indicated that they also perceived an economic upswing but hesitated to participate in the project because they could not justify hiring part-time student workers while laying off full-time workers. (A project description; student evaluation, community college, and employer questionnaires; and summaries of narrative responses to questionnaire items are appended.) (EM)