ExperiencED

2.1 Cara Krezek, Canadian Association of Cooperative Education and Work Integrated Learning (CEWIL)


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Cara Krezek is the President of the Canadian Association of Cooperative Education and Work Integrated Learning, otherwise known as CEWIL. We talk about how this organization of education institutions has worked recently to expand its definition of and to promote experiential education more broadly for Canadian students. Importantly, the national governments, both conservative and liberal, recently passed legislation and committed funding of about one billion dollars to provide an experiential activity for every Canadian student. CEWIL is in the thick of it focusing on quality assurance through, in part, an accreditation operation. We also talked about Cara’s home institution of Brock University in southern Ontario where she directs the co-op career and experiential program and how Brock became the first institution in Canada to adopt university-wide some 20 definitions experiential education broadly.
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