CEIA Best Practices Award

CEIA recognizes distinguished achievement and excellence by annually recognizing educators and employers who have excelled or made significant impact in work-integrated learning.

Previous Achievement and Excellence Award winners can be viewed online.

Best Practices Award
As Cooperative Education and Internship professionals, we are frequently tasked to develop impactful solutions to
issues and challenges in work-integrated and experiential learning programs within higher education. The purpose of CEIA’s Best Practice Award is to spotlight these approaches and their application to other programs.

Definition of a Best Practice:
A best practice is any program, project, process, procedure, or strategy that has produced a positive change in one or more of a program’s core operations, and which:
Measurably improves the efficiency or effectiveness of service or support systems for your program;
Is replicable with modification in other school programs?
Is an innovative or creative solution to the problem addressed?

A best practice is any program, project, process, or procedure that has produced a positive change in one or more of a program’s core operations, and which:
     o Measurably improves the efficiency or effectiveness of service or support systems for your program.
     o Is replicable with modification in other work-integrated or experiential learning programs.
     o Is a strategic and meaningful solution to the problem addressed.

Eligibility:
All current, active CEIA individual or organizational members are eligible.  Self-nominations are welcome.