Ian Sladen is the Vice President of Cooperative Education and Career Development at Drexel University, a cooperative education school that has practiced that form of education for over 100 years. Previously, he was the Associate Dean for Drexel’s Charles Close School of Entrepreneurship and helped develop their entrepreneurship and Innovation degree programs. He brings this faculty and academic knowledge to the job or Co-op Vice President. As Nations turn toward more skill development from Higher Education institutions, we thought it would be interesting to talk with Ian about how their program works and what are its benefits to student maturity of this form of experiential education that enable them to succeed post-graduation. We also wanted to ask him how Drexel was coping with the rush to virtualization forced by the Covid19 pandemic and what are the implications for the future.