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Cooperative Education and Internships
Contact: The Career Network, Mather
Building
Phone: 545-2224
The Career Network is a
new program consisting of seven teams
of career and field experience advisers located in academic schools
and colleges and managed from the Mather building. The Mather building
continues to house campus recruiting,
rsum referral and a career
library. Students are advised to contact the Mather building, tel. 545-2224, for further information.
Field Experience includes internships and cooperative
education at the University. Each offers students opportunities to work
as "apprentices" with professionals from any field and experience the
work world first hand before graduation. Students learn new skills, test
their academic theories, and explore professional goals while making valuable
contributions in the workplace and to society. Cooperative Education is
a unique partnership between education and industry, that enables students
to combine semesters of classroom study with periods of off-campus employment
and training. Program staff place qualified students in paid, four- to
six-month positions in business and government which complement
and enhance their University studies. "Co-op" students and interns
apply what they learn in the classroom in actual work settings and discover
possible career directions while still in school. These programs emphasize
the educational, personal and financial benefits of preprofes-sional work experience.
Every aspect of the program, from application through
placement, simulates the employment process and helps students become
informed job seekers and job holders well before they graduate.
Cooperative Education placements are always paid, while Internships always
carry academic credit.
Admission is open to students in good standing from
all majors who have attained at least sophomore status. Students work
with a Field Experience Adviser to discuss career plans, develop a resum,
apply for specific "co-op" jobs, and prepare for interviews. Field Experience
Advisers are available in each of the major academic schools and colleges
and can be reached by contacting: Engineering Field Experience
Adviser, 577-0419; Food and Natural Resources, Field Experience
Adviser, 577-0421; Humanities and Fine Arts Field Experience Adviser,
545-6266; Isenberg School of Management
Field Experience Adviser, 577-0418; Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Field Experience Adviser, 545-2224; Social and Behavioral Sciences Field
Experience Adviser, 545-6267; Public Health, Nursing and Education Field Experience Adviser, 577-0427.
Before accepting each placement, they meet with their faculty advisers
to discuss ways to relate the opportunity to their academic work and obtain
departmental clearances.
During each assignment students complete written progress
reports, are evaluated by their employers, and (distance permitting) are
visited on-site by a staff member.
The program's inclusion as part of Career Services
affords student access to hundreds of employer representatives who visit
campus each year and consider practical experience an important prerequisite
for permanent employment.
Opportunities for field experience are found in industries
such as manufacturing, banking, insurance, high technology, education,
health care, tourism, communications, agriculture, and entertainment,
and in federal and state agencies and private, nonprofit organizations.
They exist throughout Massachusetts and the northeast, and in many other
locations across the U.S. In sum, field experience offers a chance to
clarify personal and academic goals, test career objectives, travel, sometimes
earn money for school, develop maturity and self-confidence, and acquire
a better understanding of employment prospects in chosen fields.
All Career Network
locations are open Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. For further
information, contact the central office in the Mather building, tel. 545-2224.
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