Student Employment?

lynxinsider
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:53:47 +0000

Pay is typically in the neighborhood of minimum wage (at least for jobs funded by federal workstudy dollars). It is typically administered by the financial aid office and has to be awarded as a part of your aid package. If you don’t get workstudy when you get your package, you can call back and ask for it. You’ll probably get something in the neighborhood of 10-15 hours per week.

If the finaid office denies you workstudy because it’s not in their budget (as opposed to the fact that it would put your package above total cost of attendance) or because they don’t have a placement for you, then do some legwork. Go find out what departments you might want to work in and ask if they could use you. At some colleges the departments have control over their workstudy budgets, so if you get in good with a supervisor they can take you on.

At Rhodes we’ve got an additional student employment program that is competitive and puts you in professional staff-level jobs for 10-15 hours per week at a much improved pay rate. It seems that surprisingly few other colleges offer anything similar.

Good luck.