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

Beginnings                                                           

A Woman’s Place…

The Depression: A Flood of Fear

World War II

Post-War

Co-op 9-11

18-Karat Co-ops

International Co-op

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