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The Center for Career Services for Cooperative Education

337 Morehead Hall
Telephone: (973) 655-5194

The Center for Career Services and Cooperative Education

337 Morehead Hall
Telephone: (973) 655-5194

The Center for Career Services and Cooperative Education provides students with the opportunity to plan for and advance their career development. Through one-on-one counseling, interest testing, online tools, workshops, internships, job fairs, and credit-bearing experiential education courses, the Center helps students focus their interests, explore majors, apply classroom learning to the workplace, and attain the knowledge, skills and motivation to become productive citizens. The Center's extensive web site at www.montclair.edu/CareerServices serves the Center's varied constituencies with links relevant to current undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, faculty and employers.

Career Planning and Job Hunting

The Center assists undergraduates and graduate students with all phases of their career development, from choosing a major and finding part-time work to planning long-range career goals and obtaining full-time work after graduation. In career planning and job hunting workshops and through individual counseling and vocational testing, students learn to set career goals, write effective resumes, and conduct successful interviews and job searches. The career library has extensive information about careers, employers, employment trends, and graduate and professional schools. Other services include a computer lab where students can create their resumes, and attend Internet based workshops on career topics. Each year the office lists thousands of full-time, part-time and summer jobs. Area employers participate in our annual career fair and visit the campus to interview graduating seniors for full-time employment. In addition, the Center serves the campus community by listing all on-campus student jobs.

Learning through Experience

The best way to learn about the world of work is through experience. Our cooperative education program provides that opportunity to our students. As a university-wide, work-based learning program, each of the colleges and schools has an in-house career advisor to help students participate in cooperative education. Educational partnerships are formed with businesses and non-profit organizations to help students explore the relationship between classroom theory and effective workplace practices. Since its inception, over 10,000 MSU alumni from all schools and colleges and 700 business and non-profit organizations have participated in the program.

Both full and part-time, paid and stipend internship positions are available to students. These positions meet co-op work-learning criteria and are arranged for a minimum of one full semester. Screening criteria for the positions are determined by the employer and students meeting these criteria are referred for interviews. Hiring decisions are made solely by the employer. Interested students must apply at least one semester prior to enrollment.

Academic faculty are a vital part of cooperative education. They refer students, introduce staff to business leaders, advise a cohort of students, assesses student learning and maintain on-going communication with work site supervisors.

To learn more about the Center’s programs, visit our web site at http://www.montclair.edu/careerservices.

The Service-learning Faculty Fellows Program

The purpose of this initiative is to develop a cadre of faculty to integrate the philosophy, pedagogy, and process of service-learning into their teaching, research and professional service. This Program is expected to increase the quality of the service-learning, institutionalize service-learning as a pedagogy by increasing the number and variety of service-learning courses, and lend greater legitimacy to service-learning when reappointment, tenure and promotion evaluations are made.

The Service-Learning Scholars Program

The Service Learning Scholars Program is devoted to recognizing and supporting faculty members who have completed the Service-Learning Fellows Program and continue to demonstrate a substantial commitment to the teaching of service-learning courses, to the generation of scholarly products and activities related to service-learning and to the sustainability of campus-community partnerships. The Program is dedicated to encouraging the seamless integration of teaching, scholarship, and service related to service-learning and recognizes and supports the long term contributions that faculty members have made and will continue to make to service-learning. The purpose of this program is to support the generation of the highest quality scholarship related to two major scholarship areas of service-learning: the scholarship of teaching and learning and community-engaged scholarship, which links theory to practice.

Supporting Faculty Scholarship

Increased emphasis has been placed on identifying, developing, and supporting research and scholarship projects that attract faculty to the Center who have the potential to improve experiental education academic programs. Recently, the Center planned, coordinated, and conducted faculty workshops on such topics as the research design for the scholarship of teaching and learning, critical reflection in service-learning, research methods for the scholarship of teaching and learning and introduction to service-learning. Additionally, the Center coordinated and conducted a research project on innovative means for creating, sustaining, and fundamentally understanding community-campus partnerships and contracted with a publisher to write and edit book service-learning with K-12 schools.
Over 90 faculty members participated in these projects.