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Jeffrey Reznick: Chief, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine with The National Institute of Health  Kenneth M. Koyle: Deputy Chief, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine […]

In the spring of 2021, Temple University successfully launched a program to financially support students undertaking unpaid internships in the summer of 2021. The program was in response to two main considerations: the broader impact of unpaid internships on students; and the timing of a second consecutive summer during a pandemic that severely impacted student opportunities to gain meaningful work-integrated learning experience.

The cooperative engineering education model (co-op) is comprised of both classroom instruction and direct industry/research experience. However, it has only recently been implemented in China. In this paper, collected data including both positive and negative factors that encourage and inhibit employers’ participation in the co-op program in China are examined.

The world of work has been rapidly changing for many years. The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic has accentuated the unpredictable nature of the current employment landscape.