WHAT IS THE STUDENT EMPLOYMENT INITIATIVE?

Student employment opportunities on campus will be a part of UTB/TSC’s student retention and time to graduate strategy.  On a commuter campus, where most students are employed either full or part-time while enrolled, creating jobs on campus enables them to earn money while they learn, it strengthens their relationships with university faculty and staff, and adds greater unity to their educational experience.  

Each year, approximately 80 students will participate in the Student Employment Initiative. They will serve in virtually every department at UTB/TSC and perform a myriad of duties vital to our success.  

The following are some of the positions identified as meeting the program expectations:  

• Peer Mentors/Tutors: Helps students to better understand the fundamental concepts and processes inherent in the topics they are studying. 
• Peer Facilitators: A specially trained student who leads other students through the daily activities, provides on-line and verbal feedback to the students, and assists the students in investigating their research project. 
• Lab Coordinators: Responsibilities may include attending and supporting students in labs, configuration, exploration, and management of resources, helping students individually, and holding office hours.
• Supplemental Instruction (SI) Leaders: The SI Leader is a guide who helps other students share and master information as a group. The Leader attends the course for which he/she is assigned and, in evening sessions, works with students to review lecture notes, clarify text material, prepare for tests, and evaluate and improve learning strategies.
• Instructor Assistants: Student(s) assigned to a faculty member that assist with in-class instructions and/or out-of-class support. 

Creating meaningful work opportunities for our students on campus will provide the following: 

1. Positively affect the retention of program participants;
2. Positively affect the retention of the students they work with;
3. Give students an opportunity to work on campus and create critical campus connections;
4. Allow us to tap into support services for other students by utilizing our own students as mentors, facilitators, etc.;
5. Allow us to raise our overall retention rate; and
6. Positively impact our students’ time to graduate.
   
   
   

Eligibility for the Student Employment Program is as follows: 

• Students must be enrolled in at least 15 semester credit hours during the Fall or Spring semester, or 6 credit hours combined anytime between the May, Summer I, and Summer II Sessions;
• Students must have and maintain a minimum 2.75 GPA;
• Students must have an undergraduate status with no history of completing a Bachelor's degree;
• Students must have an minimum of 12 credit hours completed in attendance at UTB/TSC (dual enrollment and credit by exams do not count);
• Students must a U.S. Citizen, Resident, or F-1 Visa International Student;

Students will work in a job related to his/her major field of study (maximum of 20hr/wk during the Fall and Spring Semesters - 32 weeks); Students will receive a wage of $8/hr, the Student Employment Initiative will cover 75% of the salary ($6.00/hr) and the assigned department will cover the remaining 25% ($2.00/hr).