Students face multiple barriers to finding meaningful work-based learning experiences and internships based on location, skills, personal obligations, social capital, and more.
CIC and Riipen have joined forces in a multi-year project to ease these barriers and create more equitable and accessible work-based learning opportunities for students at 25 CIC member institutions. This collaboration aims to integrate work-based learning opportunities into up to 375 courses led by 125 faculty members and impacting up to 11,250 students. The Work-Based Learning Consortium is made possible thanks to generous support from Ascendium Education Group and Strada Education Foundation.
CIC member institutions will form a community of practice, learning how to incorporate work-based learning into their curricula, and transforming education for thousands of students.
Each selected CIC member institution will:
- Access Riipen’s innovative work-based learning platform free of charge (an equivalent value of at least $65,000 over the duration of the project)
- Participate in intensive training in integrating work-based learning into a liberal arts curriculum
- Engage in a virtual community of practice coordinated by CIC
- Equip students with current, in-demand skills required by businesses
- Collect data on student outcomes over multiple years
- Receive $7,500 in faculty stipends (i.e., $1,500 for each of five faculty champions)
There will be no additional cost to CIC institutions, faculty members, or students selected to participate in the consortium.
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Contact Information
Please refer questions about the program to Anthony Burton, CIC’s project management specialist, at aburton@cic.edu.