Norah McRae recognized for commitment to co-operative education

Co-op and Career Executive Director Dr. Norah McRae has been awarded the 2016 Dr. Albert S. Barber Award from the Canadian Association for Co-operative Education (CAFCE). This award recognizes Dr. McRae’s continuous outstanding contribution to the advancement of co-operative education (co-op) in Canada, as well as a commitment to quality and excellence, and a deep knowledge of co-operative education that she shares with her colleagues from coast to coast.

Since beginning her career in co-op at UVic in 1992, Dr. McRae has written and contributed to numerous papers and given dozens of presentations about best practices in work-integrated learning with colleagues from across Canada and around the world. Under her guidance, UVic’s Co-operative Education Program has adopted a competency-based framework that encourages students’ reflective learning, developed a consistent professional practice course for all co-op students, and created an online curriculum of more than 100 career-related resources that help students excel at everything from work search and career development to intercultural competence.