| 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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