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Employers & University Benefits

Colleges & Universities

  • Extends the classroom
  • Provides students hands-on experience using state-of-the-art equipment
  • Builds important linkages between education and business for curriculum enhancements and other partnership opportunities
  • Enables the academic institution to meet its goal of training students for today's workforce.
  • Provides an outside entity, the employers, to access the departmental curriculum and serve as a resource
  • Provides assessment documentation on students preparation and performance.
Employers
  • Provides a cost-effective means of meeting recruiting goals
  • Trains potential career employees
  • Provides an opportunity to participate in, and influence the educational process
  • Maintains a positive contact with the educational institution
  • Communicate the needs of business and industry to the educational institution
  • Displays excellent work habits, job performance, and attitudes
  • Provides students opportunities for full-time employment upon graduation.
Why should students Co-op?
  • Helps put the theories students learn in the classroom into practice in a real-life work situation.
  • Awards the students an opportunity to test their career choices while they still have the opportunity to alter their career path. Provides an opportunity for students to explore their options.
  • Provides a head start on the competition. Upon graduation, many of our students have earned more than a year of work experience directly related to their majors or career goals.
  • Instills good work ethics
  • Improves communication skills
  • Develops confidence and maturity
  • Earns upper level credit.
  • Earns funds to assist in their college expenses.
  • Provides a school-to-work transition.
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EKU Office of Cooperative Education
521 Lancaster Ave.
455 SSB, CPO 61
Richmond, KY 40475-3161
Phone: 859-622-1296