Cooperative Education Mission Statement

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The Eastern Kentucky University Cooperative Education Program promotes quality education by furnishing the most comprehensive professional preparation available to students in the colleges it serves. Cooperative Education, or Co-op, (facilitates and administers) a unique partnership among employers, students and the University whereby students work in paid, planned, progressive and supervised work experiences in business, industry, education, and government, enhancing their intellectual and professional development.

Applied Learning is also a part of the Co-op Office which offers a unique partnership among employers, students and the University, (which is more in line with an Internship not meeting the Co-op standards), whereby students work in supervised experiences in business, industry, education and government, enhancing their intellectual and professional development.