School can be hard work, but when hard work counts for school, the rewards can be life-changing. Lakeland University is putting that idea into action by offering a Youth Apprenticeship partnership program, designed to remove barriers many students face to completing a college degree.
Lakeland University is offering academic credit for work experience completed through Wisconsin’s Youth Apprenticeship Program, launched in 1991 to provide high school students with academic and occupational skills. Students in the program must log a minimum of 450 hours of work-based apprenticeship experience over a 12-month period.
Lakeland launched its Cooperative Education Program in 2018, enabling students to earn up to 25 percent of their undergraduate academic credits through work and post-work reflection in full- or part-time positions with Co-Op partner companies.
Lakeland President Beth Borgen called the partnership “the latest example of how we’re recognizing the academic value of structured, supervised experiential learning.”
Since the Co-Op program’s inception, Lakeland students have worked in more than 3,500 placements earning nearly 12,500 academic credits and working more than 668,000 hours. That’s an average of more than 35,000 per semester, and LU students have earned $10 million in wages.
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