The Ivory Tower and the Smokestack

The Ivory Tower and the Smokestack
Author: Mary B. Reilly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2006
Genre: Education, Cooperative
ISBN: 9781578602926

The University of Cincinnati is the cradle of cooperative education, more commonly known as co-op. The idea that students should regularly alternate time spent in the classroom with time spent in the workforce as paid professionals had its birth at UC in 1906. This book is the story of cooperative education at UC. The Ivory Tower and the Smokestack looks at the co-op program through the eyes of the young people who, for the past century, gained learning to last a lifetime through UC's practice of "hire education."

The Cooperative System of Education an Account of Cooperative Education as Developed in the College of Engineering University of Cincinnati. Bulletin, 1916

The Cooperative System of Education an Account of Cooperative Education as Developed in the College of Engineering University of Cincinnati. Bulletin, 1916
Author: William Clyde Park
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1916
Genre:
ISBN:

This bulletin provides a comprehensive account of the establishment of the cooperative system of education in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati, from conceptualization to implementation. The cooperative course was not the product of an academic laboratory of pedagogical research, but rather an investigation of the actual working conditions of commercial engineering practice. The old apprentice system had broken down under the strain of a complex industrial organization, and it seemed that the engineering colleges were making little effective effort to link theory and practice. The bulletin comprises four parts: (1) The cooperative idea; (2) The experimental idea, including the first class of cooperative students, details of the course, the attitude of the cooperative manufacturers, the growth of the cooperative plan, and lessons of the experimental period; (3) The reorganized system, including adaptability to various kinds of business, business organization, shop schedule, shop visits, coordination of school and shopwork, revision of the course, selection of men, and the necessity for changes in the cooperative course; and (4) Other applications of the cooperative plan, such as the definition of cooperative education, cooperation in high schools, the possible extension of cooperative education, and the requisites for a successful cooperative system. Appendix A provides typical instruction sheets and outlines, and inspection trip reports. Appendix B presents a bibliography of the cooperative system. (Contains 4 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].