<p>Does anyone know how on-campus employment is determined. Are these jobs the province of low income kids who did not get 100% of thier need met? Are middle and/or middle to high income kids afforded these jobs if they express an interest? If your S or D was offered employment how was it determined as to exactly where your S or D would work on campus? Are these jobs strictly clerical in nature ie., library, admin office, book store, or janitorial and/or food service related as well. Also, is the student paid directly or is he/she compensated via tuition discount with no cash changing hands. Finally, what job does your S or D have and how do they like it?</p>
<p>I had a work study job in the cafeteria freshman year and library soph.-sr. years. I got paid minimum wage (geez, it was 2.25 or something like that) at the beginning and got a raise each year of like 10 cents an hour each year. Always got a check; but it was mentioned as part of my scholarship offer.</p>
<p>I cleaned tables and stacked trays in the cafe. I also was required to clean up after food fights; one of the reasons I switched to the library. There I mostly sat at the front desk and checked books out but I also shelved books, put more paper and toner in the copier and fixed the copy machine (a very useful skill to have, I might add).</p>
<p>Not sure about nowadays. My D is planning on continuing as a lifeguard in college, she may or may not be work study.</p>
<p>There are differences between "jobs on campus" and "work study". Work study jobs are part of the "self-help" portion of financial aid offers; the government, I believe, picks up part of the tab. If your financial aid offer didn't include work study, you're not eligible for those jobs. How they get paid can vary from school to school.</p>
<p>Some schools do have jobs available for kids who aren't on work study. Those kids get paid just as if they had an off-campus job.</p>
<p>Not all kids who receive workstudy as part of their aid package are "low income". However some jobs may be held for students who received workstudy .</p>
<p>My daughter had workstudy as part of her finaid package- usually jobs are posted just as any other job, or you go to the dept and ask what is available.
You receive a paycheck just as in any other job & pay taxes.
However, the plus with workstudy, is that it is deducted from income that is considered for FAFSA.</p>
<p>As she attended a college that was fairly pricey and some students were not on aid, only about 60% of her friends seemed to have jobs.
Many students enjoyed the ease of working on campus, but especially those who were not on workstudy, were able to find jobs in the area as well.</p>
<p>Freshman year, she tutored high school students ( off campus), which was slightly time intensive as she used public transportation.
She enjoyed it, it replicated some of her gap year experience, but going off campus took more time than she wanted.</p>
<p>Sophomore year she worked in the biology stockroom, which wasn't as interesting but she really enjoyed working in the dept & liked the people.</p>
<p>Junior and senior year, she worked in computer services helping staff, alumni, students and emeritus profs with their software/hardware projects/problems.</p>
<p>She also came in on her year off to work in CUS, worked there the summer after graduation & helped to write a LaTeX guide.
She was able to study during slow periods, have free use of the area printers and got to meet most of the people connected with her school</p>
<p>Her workstudy job paid enough for her personal expenses and most of her books-</p>
<p>My guy had a work-study job for all 4 years - paid monthly directly to him - limited hours as the student is only allowed to work as many hours as what the work-study that was offered - ex - 1500/year would have been the max - then he could no longer work as there were no funds to pay him after he had reached is max'd allotment.</p>
<p>My gal did not get work-study - but had an on-campus job all 4 years - worked for the university Adventure Center - paid every other week like a regular employee - direct deposit - minimum wage but with increases every semester - loved it and the benefit was that her hours were based on the school calendar - but if she was available during breaks/summer - she could have worked as well. Will be good for her resume as well.</p>
<p>I am a junior with work study positions. I'm not from a low income family, but do qualify for some need-based financial aid. I'm limited by my school to 12 hours/week and I usually work about that. My first year, I worked in the dining room and now I work in the computer lab (which pays slightly more money). I like my job now because the lab is open 8 am - midnight during the week, and we sign up for shifts based on our schedules (and there are lots of shifts available).</p>
<p>Other students work in the library, as TAs, monitor the athletic facilities, etc. - if there's a building on campus, it probably employs at least a few students. The dining services job was pretty much guaranteed, but after that I had to apply and look for jobs myself.</p>
<p>There's also a period at the beginning of each semester where the only students hired are on work study, but that can be waived if the job requires a special skill only the non-work study student possesses.</p>
<p>Oh, and I'm paid directly bi-weekly. I have direct deposit set up so I never have to go to the bank. :)</p>
<p>I agree with other posters who say that campus jobs are not some income marker. Kids from all kinds of backgrounds may work on campus. The work varies, but in general students can count on the kind of flexibility they need for exam week and other intense academic times. </p>
<p>I also think it's a nice way to get to know more people at the institution. I was an undergrad back in the dark ages, but one of the faculty who was most influential in my feeling confident about grad study was the one I worked for. Never had her for a class, never was her student, but she was a special kind of mentor. I'm working on a very different sort of campus now (and my office doesn't employ any students, which I regret) but I hear other offices talk about some of their working students the same way--they care about them and their success in school.</p>
<p>Non work-study part-time campus jobs are typically widely available at large college campuses and available at smaller colleges -- but to a lesser degree. They range from routine office work, to dining services, to writing press releases for the PR dept., to assisting with research in an academic dept. Begin looking at:</p>
<p>Career services/career development (for students)
Employment office (for all campus employment)
Financial Aid office (often lists jobs that are not just work study)</p>
<p>Also, individual departments at schools (both academic and administrative) often list jobs outside of their "main" office.</p>
<p>At the school you're interested in, go to their website and search on "student employment" -- you'll get some good, basic info.</p>
<p>For example, here's some info. on student jobs at Stanford and at Smith (example of large school and smaller school)</p>
<p><a href="http://adminguide.stanford.edu/24.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://adminguide.stanford.edu/24.pdf</a></p>
<p>My kids both have workstudy jobs on campus although we are not getting any financial aid. I was told my son would probably lose his workstudy next year when his sister is no longer in college. He works at the student union about 10 hours a week. He has some set hours and must sign up for a short weekend shift as well. He said it was extremely easy to get a job. He filled out an application and they called him up within two hours and asked him to come over for an interview and was hired on the spot. He has said since then that he wishes he had looked around first before filling out that application. Most of his friends also have little campus jobs. His college has the campus jobs listed and the majority say work study and non-work study positions available. </p>
<p>I misspoke - my daughters jobs are not workstudy. Her college gets NO federal money at all, they call their program something else and it's somehow tied into the tuition. She started working second quarter of her freshman year, I think. She works about 5 hours a week at the campus owned guest house and 5 hours a week at the pub - campus snack bar. I think she makes her own hours at the latter. She was hand picked for the campus guest house job. She said it's a little harder to get jobs on her campus as an underclassman and the international students often have an edge because many stay year round.</p>
<p>starting this year our son was offered undergrad TA positions for both fall and spring terms through department professors. UGTA's assist instructors in the compsci labs, basically floating around the labs and giving students assistance with the day's lab assignment. These UGTA assignments were offered only to the top students in the department.</p>
<p>The pay is great. Both semesters he got two-2 hour labs which paid $80/week. This included 4 hrs in-class time + 4 hours prep. He has found it unnecessary to spend very much time prepping for the lab so the pay works out to about $20/hr.</p>
<p>My kid's college (Denison) offers jobs to virtually any kid who wants one (although it may not be a "fun" job), for 10 hours a week. It's good pizza money.</p>
<p>WEENIE - haha - that is what we have called our kids college jobs for years LOL - make it with pepperoni please :)</p>
<p>I had a work-study job while in college. It was part of my financial aid package. I worked in the Student Career Center on campus. I basically did clerical stuff and gopher work. Several other work-study students worked there too. We were assigned the job...no choice. We were paid via check every other week. I was a transfer student, newly married and far from home. One of the women who worked there sort of adopted me. She was always giving me recipes and typing papers for me (pre-computer days and I was a terrible typist back then) and just generally showed interested in me. It meant so much to me. We kept in touch for many years. I even called her for advice after my first child was born. Work Study turned out to be more than grocery money for me.</p>
<p>...........Work Study turned out to be more than grocery money for me........</p>
<p>I agree Packmom - my gals campus job actually had alot to do with the major she ended up choosing - and for her - the folks she has worked with have been her best group of pals at school - they have sooo much in common - so- Yes - I agee - a campus job can have far fetching effects on the kids - and there are many to be had - all schools are different - many opportunities out there.</p>
<p>Depends on the school. Virtually everyone at my daughter's school works doing something, whether they are receiving financial aid. Among the paid jobs on campus:</p>
<p>libraries
admissions tours
admissions interns
writing associates (reviewing student papers)
grading papers (math classes)
tutoring (math and science study groups)
fundraising (alumni office dialing for dollars)
staffing coffee shops</p>
<p>and, so on and so forth.....</p>
<p>I had various jobs on campus. Main one was shelving library books for minimum wage. One term I corrected calculus homework for a fixed sum. It turned out to come out to less than minimum wage. Another time a professor paid me to translate a pamphlet in French about housing types in Senegal. The first job I found through the campus employment office - the other two came from connections.</p>
<p>I got a work-study grant for my last 2 years here...I don't know what was going on for the first two. We get a set amount per year and can't get increases above that, and we get paid $7/hour every two weeks. I believe there's a limit of how many hours you can work per week when classes are in session, as well. I work in the admissions office sorting application papers. Most students try to go for the 'sit at a desk and scan cards' type jobs so they can do homework as well....scanning cards at dorm front desks, library and student center desks, computer lab monitors, etc. I think some schools have a tendency to give huge portions of their students work-study, and other schools, not so much. I'd rather have gotten some of the 10k financial aid gap they left me with than a job that barely makes a thousand a year, but what can you do? When I got hired the manager referred to it as "pizza and beer money", but I never buy anything besides necessities anyway, so I guess that makes it books and art supplies money, or something.</p>
<p>I think the work-study rate in my area is $10-12/hour for undergraduates. However, I've found out that there are on-campus jobs that pay more. For example, a student can wait on tables at the Harvard Faculty Club (no tips allowed) for $16/hour.</p>
<p>my daughter made $15hr I think at the computer lab job- she had as many hours as she wanted-
Some students aren't able to make as much, but her work ( volunteer) experience from high school and her year off, gave her a boost</p>