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Abroad, co-op offers alternative options
Myung Jin Lee
Issue date: 9/24/07 Section: News
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For students seeking more adventurous jobs, an international co-op can provide the experience a local job could not, said speakers at a recent meeting for the multinational program.
Twelve re-entry students, who just finished international co-ops, presented their experiences to 20 students and five co-op department representatives Wednesday Sept. 19, for the fall's International Co-op re-entry celebration, held at the Egan Research Center.
"We have lots of help from the whole Northeastern community to develop co-op jobs through alumni, and companies overseas," said Ketty Rosenfeld, director of international cooperative education. "It's steadily growing. We need more students to be interested in it."
International co-op began in 2002, when only 19 students participated, traveling to a total of seven different countries.
"It's a good program. It is still at an early stage, but it is improving relations with companies," said Stephen Lavenberg, Student Government Association (SGA) vice president for academic affairs.
Last spring, 96 students completed international co-ops in 37 countries including England, France, Spain, China and Nigeria.
"I would promote the program more. And I'm going to work to see how we expand the program, expanding to more countries and more majors," said SGA President Joey Fiore.
Rosenfeld said the application process is similar to a domestic co-op. The only difference is students are required to learn a foreign language.
"I would like to see greater collaboration with the modern language department to allow students to take language studies, so they could go over to non-English speaking countries. They can experience other cultures as well as working abroad," said MJ Paradiso, president of NUCALLS, a peer tutoring language club.
Brian Wraight, a senior English major, who has done domestic and international co-ops, said the two were very different, but he preferred the international one.
Twelve re-entry students, who just finished international co-ops, presented their experiences to 20 students and five co-op department representatives Wednesday Sept. 19, for the fall's International Co-op re-entry celebration, held at the Egan Research Center.
"We have lots of help from the whole Northeastern community to develop co-op jobs through alumni, and companies overseas," said Ketty Rosenfeld, director of international cooperative education. "It's steadily growing. We need more students to be interested in it."
International co-op began in 2002, when only 19 students participated, traveling to a total of seven different countries.
"It's a good program. It is still at an early stage, but it is improving relations with companies," said Stephen Lavenberg, Student Government Association (SGA) vice president for academic affairs.
Last spring, 96 students completed international co-ops in 37 countries including England, France, Spain, China and Nigeria.
"I would promote the program more. And I'm going to work to see how we expand the program, expanding to more countries and more majors," said SGA President Joey Fiore.
Rosenfeld said the application process is similar to a domestic co-op. The only difference is students are required to learn a foreign language.
"I would like to see greater collaboration with the modern language department to allow students to take language studies, so they could go over to non-English speaking countries. They can experience other cultures as well as working abroad," said MJ Paradiso, president of NUCALLS, a peer tutoring language club.
Brian Wraight, a senior English major, who has done domestic and international co-ops, said the two were very different, but he preferred the international one.
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