<p>I received a scholarship from LSU that includes an opportunity to work as a chancellor's student aid and make $1550 a year. I looked around and could find very little information about it. Is this a big honor, or do many students receive this sort of offer? What do students do as aids to the chancellor?</p>
<p>If you get work-study as well, take the work-study, you get up to $2000 instead of the $1550. Chancellor's student aide is just the name of the scholarship, you aren't actually aides to the chancellor. You have the opportunity to work in various on-campus jobs from working in the library stacking books to doing research in biology, chemistry, physics, philosophy, etc.</p>
<p>I have class in 20 mins that I need to head over to, but if you want I can go into more detail about the program if you are interested.</p>
<p>It’s only an honor in that it’s tied to the fact you made a high standardized test score and were also offered a scholarship.
Generally, you are given a job as close as possible to something related to your major. The work study counselor does it and is your liaison. The department to which you are assigned then schedules you to either work the number of hours throughout the year that will end up costing $1550 (which is about 7 hours a week if you work every week, five days a week, earning the equivalent of minimum wage).
Generally, they let you off for exams and finals week and such.
The department knows that once you hit $1550 each year, they either have to let you go or pay you from their own pockets. Some let you go. Others pay from their own pockets.
If you hate the job, you can talk to your work study counselor about changing.
You can skip working a semester (or more?) if you want, as the program has been awarded to you for your entire college career.</p>