Excerpts from a coming coffee-table book, The Ivory Tower and The Smokestack: 100 Years of Cooperative Education at UC

Beginnings                                                           

• Introduction
• A $13 million idea

A Woman’s Place…

• The '20s that roared: The women come marching in
• 1950s: “What the heck are you doing in engineering?”
• 1970s: Alone at lunch

The Depression: A Flood of Fear

• "They called me the 120-pound wonder from UC.”
• Drowning in work

World War II

• A letter home: A Cincinnati co-op killed in action
• Where there’s a war, there’s a way: Women storm the workforce

Post-War

• Courting trouble: The co-op trap

Co-op 9-11

• "It’s like New York is missing its two front teeth.”

18-Karat Co-ops

• A federal case
• “…someone’s life may depend on it.”
• Movie magic
• Building laughter with the Hollywood stars

International Co-op

• Oh, the places they go!

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