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Are you looking to increase your understanding of curriculum development, design thinking, project implementation, program management and marketing, employer relationships and development, data management and collection, mentorship and self-advocacy? Consider joining us for the 20th Annual Cooperative Education and Internship Academy Training

A Unicorn Initiative for Unpaid Internship Funding at Temple University

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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.

Analysis of Employer Views on Cooperative Engineering Education in China

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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.