News and Events

The Division of Professional Practice has much to be proud of when you consider the accomplishments of our students, our employers and our faculty. Here are just a few articles that showcase our amazing co-op triad.

2009

Coop at UC: A New Leadership and Learning-Assessment Role in the 21st Century UC has been a recognized global leader in experiential learning since the university founded the practice of cooperative education in 1906. That leadership has taken on a new dimension as co-op enters its second century of practice.

Co-op Means Real World Experience...and Paychecks UC co-op program launches careers around the globe.

2008

History Repeats: UC Co-op's Legendary Service Ethic Here is the tale of alumnus John Sherman, who graduated UC in 1938 with a mechanical engineering degree. Just like today's co-op faculty, Sherman's UC co-op placement officer went to great lengths to serve his students in need of jobs.

UC Co-op Student Helps New Orleans to Steer the City's Streets by Bike UC planning student Lauren Rae Sullivan is just back from a co-op spent working in New Orleans. While there, she’s established the NolaCycle project to provide residents with maps of the safest routes to travel the city by bicycle.

More Students and Pay (by the Millions) for UC's Growing Co-op Class Participation in UC's internationally renowned co-op program has risen almost 25 percent in the last five years. And students’ pay is likewise on the rise – growing by millions each year.

Division of Professional Practice Inducts 2008 Honorees into Co-Op Hall of Honor On July 10th, President Nancy Zimpher hosted the induction dinner at University House for the 2008 Co-Op Hall of Honor Inductees.

UC Co-op Contributes to Better Medicine Bio-medical engineering co-op student Steve Chrzanowski has been involved with research at UC's Academic Health Center and now at the Texas Heart Institute - seeking to better drug delivery in the future.

Nicholas Sillies: He’s the single most outstanding Cooperative Education Student of the Year according to the Cooperative Education and Internship Association and he’s helped to forever change the infamous New York Skyline.

2007

A Statue Takes Shape: Recognizing the Big Impact of UC as the Birthplace of Cooperative Education

Princeton Review Selects UC Among the Nation’s Best
Formerly named “Best in the Midwest,” the new Princeton Review College Guide now recognizes what students, staff and alumni already know – UC is among America’s best universities.

Architecture Co-op Far From the Mainstream
More living space for the Middle Eastern country of Bahrain means actually building islands off its coast…and UC co-op student Truitt Raun recently helped to design the land-use plans for those islands.

New NSF-Funded Research Co-op Certificate Program Helps Students Prepare for Careers in Research and Medicine One hundred years ago, a dean of engineering at the University of Cincinnati invented co-operative education. Now, a century later, a new dean of engineering at the University of Cincinnati is re-inventing co-op.

She’s a Material Girl: Materials Engineering, That Is Kristen Kesse is passionate about engineering, especially about women in engineering. For the past three years she has served as the president of the UC chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), for which she won a Just Community award in leadership.

Jacquelyn Ducat Steps Out and Steps Up After Graduation New UC College of Business graduate enters the “adult” work world — with a promotion already.

UC Inducts 2007 Honorees to Co-op Hall of Honor
On June 4 the University of Cincinnati honored individuals and institutions fundamental to the historical success of cooperative education by inducting them into the Cooperative Education Hall of Honor.

Professional Practice Honors Seniors for Outstanding Professional Achievements At a recognition event held on May 23, UC’s Division of Professional Practice honored 33 seniors for outstanding professional achievements made while working co-op jobs.

Co-op Student Travels Europe and Asia With Illusionist David Copperfield University of Cincinnati graphic design senior David Mackey has just completed his final co-op quarter as a university student, and it was something of a “magical” experience filled with constant challenge and – literally – new sights and cities nearly every day.

UC Professor Named President of National Co-op Organization In March UC Assistant Professor Anita Todd, co-op coordinator for the electrical engineering program, was named President of the Cooperative Education & Internship Association (CEIA).

U.S. News & World Report Recognizes UC Co-op as one of its "Programs to Look For" U.S. News & World Report, once again recognizes the University of Cincinnati Co-op as one of its top academic “programs to look for” (Internships / co-ops) offering "academic programs that are believed to lead to student success."

2006

Katrina Clean Up: Planning Students Help Rescue Residents Drowning in Paperwork Two UC planning students are on a cooperative-education quarter this fall in Harrison County, Miss. While there, the two students are untangling some of the intricacies of zoning for Mississippi residents left homeless by Hurricane Katrina.

Architecture Student Builds Up Experience with a Smithsonian Co-op About 24 million visitors annually drop by the Smithsonian Institution’s museums. But thanks to his current co-op work experience, UC architecture student Christopher Davis has the one-in-24 million chance to do far more than just visit.

More Than 60,000 Votes Cast to Pick UC’s Coolest Co-ops! More than 60,000 votes from campus and community have just picked UC’s coolest co-ops in an online competition, part of co-op’s centennial celebration.

Uniting the Ivory Tower with the Smokestack: Co-op Turns 100! The University of Cincinnati is the global birthplace of cooperative education. In 1906, 27 engineering students here piloted an uncertain experiment alternating time spent at school with professional work experience. Now, 100 years and 43 countries later, generations of students worldwidehave followed our lead.