COOPERATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM

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Cooperative Education Program
FY 1966 Accomplishments
1. Although the Agency has had a very small Cooperative Education
Program underway in the Office of Communications, its expanded program was
not started until early March, 1966 with the appointment of an Agency
Coordinator for Cooperative Education. He was to plan a broad program
covering not only scientific and technical needs but, possibly, areas in
the liberal arts. The requirements of NPIC were to be given first consid-
eration and. an NPIC Coordinator for their specific program was appointed.
2. During March visits were paid to the Civil Service Commission, NSA
and NASA for briefings on their programs of Cooperative Education. The
central organization for institutions and employers involved in this field
was also visited, the National Commission for Cooperative Education in
New York City; and CIA became a member of its action arm, the Cooperative
Education Association. The Agency Coordinator also attended a southeast
regional conference of this latter organization. At this time the first
visit to a university campus was made to the University of South Florida,
which is experienced in Cooperative Programs.
3. Enough information was now at hand. to allow firm decisions to be
made on the basic details of the Agency's program so as to place us in a good.
competitive position. The selected. co-op students would. be:
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a. Appointed as Reserve Staff Employees, meeting all our
usual medical and. security standards and. receiving all the
usual benefits of federal employment.
b. Reimbursed for cyclical travel expenses (DCI approval
has been requested.).
c. Paid on a scale based on class in college, running from
GS-3 as a Freshman, up one grade each year to GS-7 as a Senior.
(Most Co-op Programs take five years).
4. Our program was started at a poor time of year for the actual
selection of students. Most schools are set up to do this.in the Fall and
Winter Quarters. However, pushing to get a pilot program started at once,
we were able to EOD two math students from the University of South Florida
in NPIC for the Summer Quarter.
5. To date we have concentrated on visiting schools that have Co-op
Programs, telling our story to Deans, faculty members, and Co-op Education
Coordinators. All have been most receptive and interested.. Twelve such
schools have been visited so'far and we will interview students at ten of
them this Fall and. Winter, (List attached)
6. Obviously, all schools having curricula in which the Agency is
interested do not have Cooperative Programs, so we have instituted a Summer
Intern Program to meet this situation. The principles are the same as those
in a regular co-op program; we would just consider the summer months as the
work period.. The Executive Director-Comptroller approved a small program in
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NPIC for this summer and. we were able to EOD three photo science students
from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
FY 1967-1968 Plans and Objectives
7. In FY 1967 it is planned to continue approaching colleges to make
cooperative arrangements. Country-wide there are 95 schools having
Cooperative Education Programs, of which some 70 are in the eastern part of
the country. An ultimate goal of 50 with which we had. firm agreements would
seem reasonable.
8. In FY 1967-1968 we would hope to have about 50 co-op students in
NPIC alone, not including some 25 Summer Interns. How many students might
be placed elsewhere in the Agency it is too soon to tell, but perhaps the
above figures could. be duplicated in the period under review.
9. In FY 1967-1968 increased. efforts to start this program in areas
other than NPIC will be undertaken. Already the Agency Coordinator has dis-
cussed this with the DD/I Coordinator for Academic Relations, the DD/I China
Task Force, ORR, DD/S&T and,TSD/DDP. The scientific and engineering areas
seem most propitious but hopefully a program for economists and China
analysts can be developed. Other areas of chronic personnel shortages will
be explored.
10. The pay-off of this program is, of course, in the number of students
who, on graduation, decide to make a career of CIA. A real test of this will
not come till the Spring of 1969 because the bulk of our co-ops will be
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coming to us as Sophomores in the Winter and. Spring of 1967. However,
two Summer Interns and. one Co-op now in NPIC will graduate in the Spring of
1967 and. we shall have a small sample.
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LIST OF COLLEGES VISITED TO DATE
IN THE COOPERATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM
Auburn University
*Cornell
University of Florida
University of South Florida
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Louisville (Speed Scientific School)
University of Missouri (*Columbia and. Rolla campuses)
Northeastern University
Rochester Institute of Technology
Syracuse University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
* We will not co-op with Cornell, as the employer must
pay the University for each student. The Columbia campus
of the University of Missouri has only a very limited program
not suited to our needs.
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Scientific and Technical . . .
Cooperative Education
The CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
has a PROGRAM of COOPERATIVE EDUCATION for qualified
students interested in a career with this important Government
agency in certain SCIENTIFIC and TECHNICAL fields.
POSITIONS in Washington, D. C., for undergraduates
studying in the fields of Mathematics, Photo-
graphic Sciences, Photogrammetry, Optics, Computer Program-
ming, Physics, Civil and Electrical Engineering.
CHALLENGING ASSIGNMENTS:
Your work periods will involve you in practical and responsible
tasks directly related to your field of study.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
You will be given increasingly important assignments as you ad-
vance in school and gain experience on the job. Your salary will
be increased commensurate with this development. You will
have the opportunity for contact with professional people in your
field. The work is classified and stands on the frontier of modern
science and technological development.
EMPLOYMENT:
Students accepted in the program must meet the Agency's estab-
lished selection standards. They are given regular employee
status and enjoy all the benefits associated with Federal err7ixloy-
ment.
COMMUNICATE
with your Coordinator of
Cooperative Education:
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Scientific and Technical . . .
Summer Interns
The CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
has a SUMMER INTERN PROGRAM for qualified students inter-
ested in a career with this important Government agency in
certain SCIENTIFIC and TECHNICAL fields.
POSITIONS in Washington, D. C., for Sophomores, Juniors
and Seniors going to Graduate School studying
in the fields of Mathematics, Photographic Sciences, Photogram-
metry, Optics, Computer Programming, Physics, Civil and
Electrical Engineering.
CHALLENGING ASSIGNMENTS:
Your work periods will involve you in practical and responsible
tasks directly related to your field of study.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
You will be given increasingly important assignments as you
advance in school and gain experience on the job. Your salary
will be increased commensurate with this development. You
will have the opportunity for contact with professional people in
your field. The work is classified and stands on the frontier of
modern science and technological development.
Students accepted in the program must meet the Agency's estab-
lished selection standards. They are given regular employee
status and enjoy all the benefits associated with Federal employ-
ment.
COMMUNICATE
with your Placement Office:
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23 December 1965
C/RRPD MEMORANDUM FOR: Professional Recruiters (FY 66-32)
SUBJECT
REFERENCE
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. CHINTELL Field Visits
: C/RRPD Memorandum, dated 23 November 1965, FY 66-19,
Subject: Chinese Language and Area Centers
2. CHINTELL's mission, in part, was set forth in reference memorandum,
which gave the sense of the DDCI's directive to the DDI to "undertake the
monitoring Cevaluationj of the scale and scope of training being given in
colleges, et cetera"'and to "stimulate the scale of enrollment . . ."
3. I have met with CHINTELL and made certain recommendations in keeping
with the great importance the DDCI attaches to the Intelligence Community
strengthening its language competence (modern Chinese) and its analytical
competence (economic, political, sociological, technical--wherein language
knowledge may or may not exist in combination with area knowledge) with
respect to developing intelligence on Communist China.
L I recommended, for example, that the Community grant employee sabbati-
cals for specialized study; that it finance both graduate and undergraduate
study of cleared students who cannot yet be counted as employees; that, by
the same token, it open its doors for Summer employment to students pursuing
studies in these areas; that, certainly, the Agency reduce to writing, for its
recruiters, precisely what we are seeking by way of personnel numbers, profes-
sional training, et cetera as against continuing to verbalize requisitions in
such broad terms that we may not be playing in the same ball park.
5. Essentially, I suggested that CHINTELL's first training evaluation
mission might very well be that of self-orientation, coming to understand the
loose structure and workings of an Area Studies and Language Center. I
consider this vital intelligence, and that it can only be gathered and
evaluated (monitored) on-the-spot, at.the:Centers concerned. Considerable
variations in curriculum and interdisciplinary relationships occur, as we
know--and as CHINTELL should come to know, firsthand.
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6. Obviously, then, this means Center visits by CHINTELL teams (one,
two, or three CHINTELL.members), jointly with the Recruiter, calling on the
Director of the Center and key faculty who fit into the Center picture. I had
asked that these visits be deferred until March, in the case of the Eastern
Recruiters who will not be attending the Spring Conference in Washington, and
until April, in the case of the Western Recruiters. We will want the Western
Recruiters to meet with CHINTELL during their Headquarters visit in March, to
exchange information, questions, and answers, in a general discussion of the
problem,'both as it pertains to requirements and the depth, or lack of.depth.,.
of specialization on China or in Chinese that any cross-section of Center
students contains.
7. We should plan to cover the Centers of the twenty-three universities
listed'in reference memorandum as being NDEA-funded, plus, certainly, such
universities as California (Berkeley), which operates its China Center without
NDEA funds (although its South Asia and-Near Eastern Language and Area Centers
are NDEA-funded).,.
8. .I would allow a minimum of one:day per center, preferably two,'. to
include our sponsorship of an,informal luncheon with the Director and two or
three of.the faculty whose-courses are counted as Center-oriented. If it can
be.arranged, the teams should have a chance to talk with any students who are
motivated toward. Government, or, who areas yet non-committed insofar as a
Government, Education, or Business career is concerned.
9. I. have emphasized with CHINTELL that this first orientation visit-
should not be thought of necessarily as a recruitment trip; rather, that we
will come back to CHINTELL'next,ycar with a list of "Center Days" and ask
CHINTELL to,have one of its . members' join a given Recruiter at a given Center
on a'given day, provided'the Headquarters representative is of sufficient
stature to make an on-the-spot employment commitment.
.10. With what I have given you here, please refer to the Addendum to this
memorandum for my suggested sequence of Center visits this spring, realizing
that we should like to deploy each team so as to make the sampling of Centers
both a prudent and substantively profitable undertaking. Where two or more
recruiters are picking up and relaying a team, talk it over in terms of prior
commitments, if any, and appoint a spokesman to give me a fix on whatever
'regional itinerary you agree upon and would have me lay on with CHINTELL-.
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