FULLERTON : CSUF Intern Plan Rated Best in West
Cal State Fullerton offers the best student internship program in the western United States, according to the National Commission for Cooperative Education.
John Dromgoole, vice president for the commission, cited the number of placements and the contact with students and employers as factors that made the university’s internship center “the premier cooperative education program in the West.”
Since 1978, the university has placed more than 24,000 students in internships, more than 2,000 of them last year.
Dromgoole made his comments in an evaluation of the program, which has received about $1.14 million from the U.S. Department of Education since 1974.
Carolyn Kubiak, director of the Fullerton cooperative education center, said the latest federal grant of $181,000, awarded this summer, will be used to increase the number of students, employers and university academic departments participating in the program.
“In sheer numbers of quality placements, (Cal State Fullerton) ranks in the top 10 in the country,” Dromgoole said in his evaluation report.
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