Executive Order 11202—Permitting Student Trainees to be Given Career or Career-Conditional Appointments

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 2 of the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 403) and Section 1753 of the Revised Statutes (5 U.S.C. 631), and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. The appointment of an employee occupying a Student Trainee position in a shortage occupation that is excepted from the competitive service under Schedule B of the Civil Service Rules shall be converted to a career-conditional or career appointment if he:

(1) has successfully completed a preprofessional cooperative workstudy program and has satisfied all applicable requirements leading to the award of a bachelor's degree;

(2) has had a minimum of six months' work experience in the employing agency as a Student Trainee;

(3) is recommended for such appointment by his employing agency; and

(4) meets all other requirements and conditions prescribed by the Commission under Section 3 of this Order.

Sec. 2. As used in this Order, a cooperative work-study program is a program involving alternating periods of planned work experience and related study at an accredited college or university in either (1) a curriculum in which the work experience is a prerequisite to the award of a degree, or (2) a curriculum where formal arrangements are made with the college or university for selecting and retaining program participants and for scheduling and coordinating work experience and academic study.

Sec. 3. The Civil Service Commission shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Order.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

The White House,

March 5, 1965.