The year 2024 officially marks 45 years of co-op excellence at Mount Saint Vincent University, and we’re celebrating!

For the past four and a half decades, MSVU co-op, internship and work experience students have excelled in the workplace – making lasting impacts on their own careers and the employers they’ve worked for. To celebrate this exciting milestone, we’ll be publishing videos of MSVU co-op graduates from over the past 45 years. Learn more about their experiences in co-op and how those experiences have translated into lasting and successful careers as these videos are populated throughout 2024. We hope you enjoy hearing alumni stories and feel inspired to engage in work-integrated learning – whether you’re someone contemplating going to university or an employer thinking about hiring a co-op student.

We thank these co-op alumni for joining us in celebrating a fantastic 45 years of co-op. Here’s to many, many more.

MSVU co-op 45th anniversary videos and other content will be added throughout 2024. Check back on our website, Instagram and Facebook throughout the year to celebrate.

Lynn Coveyduck, BPR, 1996

Lynn’s Dad would say she can’t keep a job…she says she’s just interested in too many different things. Over the course of her career, Lynn has led a non-profit, tackled media issues such as strikes and lay-offs, built new lines of revenue, and managed an economic development team’s province-wide response to COVID-19 in its early days. At the same time, she’s raised funds to build a new YMCA and the Margaret Norrie McCain Centre at MSVU, mentored students, entrepreneurs, and new Nova Scotians, been on a Chamber of Commerce task force, and helped plan provincial legs of national conferences (twice). And she’s also the only Duke MBA graduate in Atlantic Canada (as far as she knows – if you’re a Blue Devil, get in touch). Now she’s stepped into the VC realm, using her strategic management skills to align Sandpiper’s work and ensure founders and investors are given the custom, thoughtful Sandpiper treatment they won’t get anywhere else.

Amy Thurlow, BPR, 1989

Amy is Professor of Communication at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada. Her research is motivated by a curiosity about how humans socially construct and enact organization through processes of identity construction. Her recent work includes historical constructions of identity and the alternative histories often ignored in that process. Her 2019 book, Social Media, Organizational Identity and Public Relations: The Challenge of Authenticity, investigates identity construction in a virtual context. Her most recent book, Diversity and Business Storytelling (2023), is a collection of works exploring diversity in organizations from a variety of perspectives, co-edited with Dr. Jean Helms Mills.

Among other courses, Amy teaches Strategic Public Relations in the Master of Public Relations program, as well as the Foundations of Public Relations course in the Bachelor of Public Relations degree program, both at MSVU. She has been teaching for the past two decades and previously worked in public relations as a communications officer in the international development and health care sectors.