During the 1980’s, the cooperative program at Northeastern was further refined into something that much more closely resembles the program we have today. By 1985 the program was revised to a point where it stopped seeing modification for a period of over 5 years. Some changes included experiential program expansions and the introduction of the five-year plan to students in the College of Arts and Sciences. This was the only college that did not make co-op mandatory for their students. Greater attention was given to liberal arts students, as the student handbooks highlighted the importance of fieldwork in departments who did not have excessively clear post-college career paths. Few opportunities were granted to liberal arts students nationally, and Northeastern wished to stand out amongst the crowd. Digital archive photos feature criminal justice and journalism internships, with students gaining hands-on experience. In 1984, the university celebrated the 75th anniversary of the cooperative education program. A photo from the archives showcases an excited student group celebrating in ​​Krentzman Quadrangle, demonstrating the optimistic attitudes bolstered by the ever-improving program. Following the anniversary, significant changes to the cooperative program dwindled, with little to no changes noted in the student handbooks. During this period, Northeastern would distribute a two different typres of forms to students after they returned from co-op to gauge it’s effectiveness. One of these included the student-employee evaluation forms which were used to determine how effectively a student used their time on co-op. The student description of cooperative assignment questionnaire was the other, being used to make details about the assignment and employer readily available for other curious students. The experiential program was reconfigured as an alternative type of co-op; an opportunity for students to partake in what seemed to be an early form of what is now Northeastern’s Dialogue of Civilizations. New program partner included Outward Bound, Adventures, and Seaquester. These offered hands on experiences that offered a more education oriented opportunity than a traditional co-op. Overall, the 80’s were a period of innovation for co-op at Northeastern, spending much of the decade making numerous changes from year to year with their main goal being to give students more options and opportunities, and by the end of the decade they seemed to have done just that.