The MTU Senate approves in principle the establishment of undergraduate cooperative education programs. However, it is recognized that each individual cooperative agreement must be evaluated on its own merits, both from the standpoint of academic value and from considerations of adaptability to a given curriculum.
Minimal considerations in these evaluations are:
- The potential academic value of the cooperative program, judged in the light of the responsibility of the University to maintain an independent and critical role in society.
- Assurance that each individual agreement between the University and a given organization provides that:
- The student be employed by the organization in a manner beneficial to his academic program.
- The University not be bound to an agreement it may be unable to fulfill, such as being required to send students to a company when none be available.
- No undue financial or academic burden be placed on the Department entering into the agreement, its faculty, or its students.