Show On Working While Getting Gelling Y Your o Jr Degree I I Students heading toward a AI higher education should look I into the growth in many parts of the nation of operative cooperative programs that permit college students to work with a company company com pany in their chosen field while pursuing college training in that same Mme direction Emergence Emer gence genre of system has result result- resulted ed from successful teamwork between college and management manage ment leaders JOB COLLEGE COMBINATION COl PROGRAMS While the Idea of working your way through college is scarcely new In times past the jobs taken by students to help II themselves along often orten had nothing to do with their career I objectives Boys jer k ked e d sodas mowed lawns did night work In local factories girls sat baby did time part clerking clerk I ing in local lucal stores tutored and so on But the trouble was that their scholastic alms aims were almost al al most always slowed or even diverted b by their need to tomake tomake tomake make money RECENTLY col cott colleges 1 e g e s Inmany in inmany inmany many many sections have begun to appreciate the value of developing develop develop- Ir ing workable plans in joint ac ae action tion with private concerns and government agencies seeking to build strong crews of skilled skille d employees There are currently current ly Iy 78 colleges and universities with such programs in operation opera lion tion 18 of these having been bee n added in the past two years The National Commission fo for r oper Co-oper operative Co-operative Uve Education reports report rs s that nearly 50 more higher education ed establishments are considering con coir such systems S So it 1 is s evident the work-study work concept will attract many more degree degre e e seekers from now now on FOR AMBITIOUS COLLEGE MATERIAL As As' a arule rule the program program requires re reo requires quires five years instead o of f four tour to get a b bachelors bachelor's che rs r's d degree gree because of the time devoted to to developing on the job the job skill in an n allied company o or agen agency agency y For the Ithe first year sear ear concentration Is usually on basic academic studies so other forms of fi financial ti fi help may be essential for that period IN TilE THE YEARS thereafter however an eligible student should be able to work In his job study job study program enough to cover most of his costs Commission Com Coma mission figures Indicate that there are now more than entered In the cooperative program pro gram earning on an average about 2000 annually When a company or a government gov agency ties lies in with a work study program at a given university or college it Is naturally na for the possible later recruitment re reo of the students for time full-time employment In this way employers get to know the young people during their training train ing days and are able to appraise appraise appraise ap ap- praise their capabilities as they go along THIS TillS PROVIDES an extraordinary extra ordinary opportunity to give direction di dl to scholars and head them toward careers for which they are best suited within the field they have originally se sc The college is likewise enabled to slant its courses toward to ward this end PROGRAM WORTH LOOKING INTO No No matter where you live those thos of you who have children or grandchildren with hopes hope for a higher education should direct the attention of such ex- ex expanding young people to this rapidly expanding ex study joh-study concept One very strong point paint In its favor favors is that corporations and agencies agencies agen agen- cies concerned are almost always al ways willing to start graduates at a a than than higher beginners beginners beginners beginner's begin ners ner's pay THIS TillS IS because the on the job training during d the college years cuts the time and cost th that t would otherwise be spent breaking in such employees when they joined personnel rolls A LETTER LETIER to any college selected selected se se- se from the list should bring you details of the plan and tell you what steps must be taken to determine eligibility ity fOr entrance Send a full full- sized stamped self addressed self return envelope |