Co-op Awareness Month on October, 2024: op Awareness Month - wat can i gain from co op experience!!?

October, 2024 is Co-op Awareness Month 2024. Wellness News at Weighing Success: October 2010 Wellness News Co-op Awareness

BENEFITS OF CO-OP

To recognize and honor outstanding cooperative education students, Kappa Theta Epsilon is a new honor society that has been recently established at Cook College. The society is also designed to promote awareness of the advantages of enrolling in the co-op program. Membership is open to those co-op students who have completed at least 50% of the requirements of their degree, and are also scholastically ranked in the top fifth of their class.

The benefits of membership include a new Speaker of the Month program, where various speakers who are employed in a variety of business and environmental fields are invited to discuss their own work experiences. These are speakers who work in selected fields that closely correspond to the majors and career interests of Cook College students.

In addition, Kappa Theta Epsilon members are individually recognized at the graduation ceremony and on their official transcripts, which also makes membership into this honor society a worthwhile commitment.

A BRIGHTER PROFESSIONAL FUTURE

The cooperative education program is facilitated by the Cook College administration. Furthermore, co-op students generally establish valuable network connections within their fields that often lead to brighter and more promising professional careers. At the same time, students typically earn a salary while earning academic credits toward their degree.

The promise of credits and a salary while being employed in your respective major before graduation enhances your professional and emotional maturity, preparing you to be successful in your career! Cook College is pleased to assist you in this regard by offering the services of cooperative education.

A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a "co-op", provides academic credit for structured job experience. Cooperative education is taking on new importance in helping young people to make the school-to-work transition, service learning, and experiential learning initiatives

Are there any programs which don't charge a fee to volunteer abroad for a year or less?

You never said anything about what it is that you can do. What are your areas of expertise? Can you work in a language other than English?

Here is a web site that can help you learn more about the skills and experience desired by organizations that don't charge volunteers but require volunteers to be highly-skilled, and how you can start to gain such experience locally, wherever you are right now:

If you skills and experience that are very much needed in the developing world -- you've managed a literacy project, you've built a water filtration system using local materials, you've directed an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign with teenagers, you've helped establish a farmer's co-op, you've provided medical services, you've helped with a prisoner education program, etc. -- then you can look into SCI - Service Civil International () and Winrock International. Both are based in the USA and have short-term assignments for highly-skilled, expert volunteers. Look at their web sites to get an idea of the kinds of experts they are looking for.

Without skills that are very much needed in the developing world, you are an unskilled volunteer, and will need to pay all expenses associated with your experience: flights, in-country transportation, health insurance, accommodation, food, security, translators, training, staff to create the service opportunities and then to supervise and support you in your service, liaisons with the police and local officials, etc. The reason is that the organization wants to spend it's money hiring local people for unskilled jobs, so they can gain experience and feed their families.

There is a listing of the more-than-30 member organizations of the International Volunteers Program Association (IVPA) that is a good place to find reputable volunteer-for-a-fee programs -- programs where you don't need to have much experience in order to participate, and the placements are just for a few weeks or months:

Here's one specific org recommendation for a pay-to-volunteer program: Unite For Sight, which workes through partner eye clinics and communities to create eye disease-free communities. "While helping the community, volunteers are in a position to witness and draw their own conclusions about the failures and inequities of global health systems. It broadens their view of what works, and what role they can have to insure a health system that works for everyone..." This program was featured on CNN International. Volunteers, both skilled and unskilled, are 18 years and older, and there is no upper age limit. It is obligatory for accepted volunteers to purchase insurance coverage through Unite for Sight's recommended provider, and volunteers are responsible for all travel arrangements, visa vaccine requirements, lodging, airfare, food, and any additional expenses.

Why does my boss treat me differently?

Came across this answer elsewhere yesterday and gave you a fairly detailed answer, but I guess I answered the iteration that you deleted.

In either event, a couple of things ... summarized from yesterday.

1. The boss has to have learned something over 35 years. She may demand that you do something a certain way because she has an awareness of the underlying reasons ... reasons that may take too long to explain, or that you may not need to be privy to.

2. We have "co-op" students at my job all the time. They rotate out every 8 weeks or so. We refer to them as "the externs." It's not meant to demean them. It's simply a consistent way of referring to "the people filling this particular role at this time."

3. The boss may know she is difficult to work with, but finds it easier to condition the people around her than to change herself. The people who adapt to her style are the ones who will succeed. This is true in all jobs. Give the boss what she wants (assuming it's legal, ethical, etc.) and your work life will go much more smoothly.

4. Remember you may need to use her as a reference. You want a good reference. Conduct yourself accordingly.