Norah McRae, associate provost of co-operative and experiential education at the University of Waterloo, joined a panel discussion on enabling a dynamic workforce at the Waterloo Innovation Summit on April 14.
Co-op for Community is a unique partnership between United Way Waterloo Region and the University. The donor-funded program creates meaningful co-op jobs to work at local non-profits in Waterloo Region that need talent.
Recipient of the Environment Co-op Student of the Year Award, Emma Schuster, shares her experience working in social media for Habitat for Humanity - Ontario Gateway North.
2021 recipient of the Math Co-op student of the Year Award, Laura Bumbulis, discusses her experience of working as a bioinformatic analyst at Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. Focusing on pancreatic cancer, she worked with a team to determine specific treatments based on cancer types.
In this panel discussion, Dr. Norah McRae shares research and insights on how work-integrated learning prepares talent for the future of work.
Working to ease children's anxiety and distress around receiving a vaccine, Waterloo Computing and Financial Management student, Anthoy Ilersich, helped to develop a game that will help children cope with getting a needle.
This keynote describes the strengths of an intentional, integrated work-integrated learning (WIL) and career education ecosystem to prepare students for the future of work.
Norah McRae delves into a recent study about how co-op students are carrying out work related to the United Nations’ sustainable development goals.
Study findings show 13 per cent of students from the Faculty of Environment's co-op terms work is directly related to the UN SDGs. The study's findings suggest more could be done to increase awareness for the SDGs and better assessment is required.
TVO Today article addresses the future of remote work. Judene Pretti, director of business services for Co-operative and Experiential Education at Waterloo, discusses co-op student surveys regarding remote work.