Show Director of t C Cooperative Education Chosen James T. T Godfrey has has' been hired as director of cooperative education at Utah Utan Technical College at Salt Lake The announcement announcement announcement announce announce- ment was made today by Robert Beebe assistant to the vice president for A native of western Nebraska Mr Godfrey has 20 years e experience in hi the cooperative education field For 6 years he was coordinator coordinator coordinator coor coor- of cooperative education education education ed ed- ed- ed at Lockheed Missiles Missiles Missiles Mis Mis- siles Space Company In 1968 he began a 7 year 7 year association with the Mid- Mid Atlantic Center for Cooperative Coop Copp Education at Virginai Virginai Virginal Virgi Virgi- nai nal Polytechnic Institute and State tate University And subsequently he held a similar position as director of the Western Center for Cooperative Education at the University of th the Pacific He has also been involved with his own firm of James JamesT T Godfrey Associates v undertaking ha rt consulting and and d program evaluation for colleges colleges colleges col col- leges and lm universities vers ties as aswell aswell aswell well as doing executive search and recruiting Mr Godfrey has won several national awards for his work in cooperative education and has also authored a number of arti anti articles articles cles Iles of the subject He has served in leadership leadership leadership leader leader- ship positions with several professional associations and societies He received his BS degree from the University of Nebraska and the MA M.A. from the University sity of Santa Clara In his new position at Utah Technical College Mr Godfrey will reorganize the wide campus-wide cooperative education programs Eventually Eventually Eventually Even Even- this wi will l mean expansion expansion expansion sion of students' students opportunities to earn credit re it for practical experience with employers while attending college colleg Cooperative education education edu edu- cation atio provides them the privilege of putting classroom classroom classroom class class- room theory in into o practise under the scrutiny of their heir work supervisors and with consultation from a op co-op coordinator At the present time there are approximately 1000 institutions higher education education education tion with some op co-op pro pro- grams About students students students stu stu stu- dents are involved in one form or another of the cooperative education ex- ex ex While a few universities universities uni uni- have op co-op programs programs programs pro pro- grams most are promoted by years 2 community colleges |