This paper examines the rapidly developing trends of cooperative education and nontraditional study. The author sees these trends as an attempt to end the self-imposed isolation of higher education. The first, cooperative education, brings students out of the more traditionally cloistered classroom setting into the world of work. The second,…

This is a report on the development of a service-learning project conducted in the southern region since 1967. The program provides college students with internships in community agencies to work on social and economic problems. Each student is assigned a project and works under the supervision of a project committee made up of a host agency…

Information gathered from questionnaires, interviews, and on-site visitation is presented for 50 representative program sites in the United States at which work education projects are in operation. A summary of each program's history, organization, goals, student and faculty composition, work environment, and mode of operation is provided. Each…

The symposium report focuses on an upgrading program (designed by the Consortium for Occupational Therapy Education) to develop alternate routes to credentialled education and training, resulting in opening up occupational therapy career opportunities to young people. The consortium was composed of four New York State hospitals, two academic…