The Undergraduate Experiential Education of an MBA
 
Corinne Freeman D’Ambrosio NU 02 and Jim Stellar
 
Corinne was a major in Anthropology with an Education minor who went into business after graduation and just received her MBA degree (congratulations!).  She also was head of the College of Arts and Sciences Student Advisory Council when I was Dean of [...]

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Full Time in a company – undergraduate research amplified
 
Ashley Pira NU’12 and Jim Stellar
 
Ashley and I wrote a post some time ago about breaking into undergraduate research in a neuroscience lab at Northeastern.  It drew a lot of attention at the time and we followed that with another post after she had really established herself [...]

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Ownership starts with engagement which can be developed with experiential education
 
Cynthia Bainton and Jim Stellar
 
We have noticed that when it comes to taking responsibility for a task or project, whether at school or at work, people fall into two groups – those that demonstrate ownership, openly embracing the responsibility for that task, and those “Teflon” [...]

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Crazy for Internships and for Academic Excellence
 
Joanna Lund-Pops QC’12 and Jim Stellar
 
Joanna is an undeclared upper sophomore intending to double major in Political Science and Anthropology, a transfer student from U. Maryland, and a holder of a 4.0 GPA.  However, what is perhaps most remarkable about her is the number and types of experiences she [...]

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We have been TACEd
 
Jim Stellar and Rick Porter
 
TACE is the Thailand Association of Cooperative Education.  It aims to spread co-op throughout Thailand and is doing a pretty good job.  We just finished a 4 day in-country Institute with them, working practically 24/7 with 40 dedicated professionals in Bangkok and are posting this from Hong Kong [...]

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Building a Confidence Growth Curve through Work Experiences
 
Alisa Duhaney NU ’08 and Jim Stellar
 
Sometimes the work experience begins before College. In the case of Alisa, we have that example and can see how that work experience is built upon by a Cooperative Education work experience and finally experience on a regular job.  The field is [...]

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Two adjustments at once
 
Nawal Ali NU‘11 and Jim Stellar
 
In the continuing effort to capture what happens in the real-world of cooperative education experience, I got an e-mail over the summer from one of my mentees at Northeastern who had just started her 6 month cooperative education experience.  We decided to present it here, because it [...]

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Industry-Academic Co-creation
 
Thami Msubo and Jim Stellar
 
Thami is Chief, HR, Corporate Affairs & Empowerment of Tata Steel KZN (South Africa), and Jim is known to this blog as the Provost and Academic Vice President of CUNY Queens College.  Jim and Thami met a number of times at the World Association of Cooperative Education Conferences.  Thami [...]

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