Health and social policy

Executive Order 13024: Amending Executive Order 12015, Relating to Competitive Appointments of Students Who Have Completed Approved Career-Related Work Study Programs

President: Bill Clinton

Allowed qualifying cooperative-education students to receive term appointments and later convert noncompetitively to permanent competitive-service positions.

Status: Revoked.

Is Executive Order 13024 still in effect? No. Revoked when the Pathways Programs regulations took effect on July 10, 2012.

What does Executive Order 13024 do?

EO 13024 let agencies use term appointments for qualifying students under EO 12015 and later convert those appointees to career or career-conditional positions without another competition before the term expired. OPM identified its 1997 interim regulation as implementation of EO 13024. The Student Career Experience Program was later replaced by the Pathways Internship Program when the 2012 rules took effect; the old appointment route is historical.

Administration position: The order created a hiring eligibility route; it did not guarantee appointment or waive qualification and suitability requirements.
SignedNovember 7, 1996
Parent orderEO 12015
Added appointment typeTerm

Before and after

Before the order

Qualifying graduates could convert only to career or career-conditional appointments.

After the order

Agencies gained a term route with a later noncompetitive-conversion option.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Federal agenciesUse term, career or career-conditional appointmentsUntil 2012 replacement
OPMAdminister eligibility rulesHistorical framework

What happened next

EO 13024 added term appointments to the student conversion route.

OPM issued interim implementing regulations.

Pathways regulations replaced the Student Career Experience Program.

OPM’s current Pathways guidance and the order text were rechecked.