This manual, revised and updated from the 1971 version, is designed to provide beginning coordinators with a usable handbook to develop new programs in cooperative office education. After statements on development of the manual and instructions in its use, the book is divided into phases, each with educational objectives, checklists, and suggested learning activities. The phases examined are the following: development of program goals, development and review of new and on-going programs, development of criteria for selection of student learners, selection of student learners, compilations of students' personal and educational data, utilization of guidance department in selection of student learners, development of criteria for selection of training stations, selection of training stations, interviews with firm representatives, placement of students, public relations, law and the cooperative office education program, coordinating techniques, advisory committees, student organizations, evaluation, job placement, model office simulations, and follow-up of completers/leavers. An appendix contains forms, a description of the General Aptitude Test Battery, definitions of terms, and a bibliography. (KC)