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National award for co-op, internship program underscores student career success
27 Aug 2024
News, Dunn County
For a college student, a job that pays nearly $20 an hour, provides academic credit, is in their career field and could lead to a full-time job sounds too good to be true.
But it is true at UW-Stout. The Cooperative Education and Internship Program is so successful that it has received the annual Excellence & Innovation Stewards of Place award from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities “for its outstanding results and potential to influence and serve as a model for other institutions.”
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