About 1,300 University of Oregon students per year are in the
work-study program. Kyna Burgett, an assistant director in the UO financial aid office, reels off a lengthy list of benefits from the program, from teaching students work-related skills such as time management and business etiquette, to helping them gain career-related knowledge, build a resume, make connections and find jobs after graduation.
Is financially sound and at full enrollment the school is primarily dependent on revenue from the
work-study program to meet operating expenses.
Unlike a
work-study program, these types of studios often allow you to work for pay and take free class.
A major source of the problem stems from the fact that the
work-study program uses a fifty-year-old formula to determine how federal funds are allocated.
Students generally are eligible for food stamps if they qualify for a state or federally funded
work-study program, work at least 20 hours per week, have a child under the age of 12, or are taking employer-sponsored job training classes.
Lola sees you doing something academically cool, like starting a
work-study program, hosting a foreign exchange student or virtual-visiting college sites.
A Georgia high school senior recently got a job as a hostess at a Hooters restaurant as part of her school's
work-study program. But when administrators told the teen she could not receive credit for working at a chain that uses the sex appeal of its servers to sell food, she kept the job and dropped out of the class, the Savannah Morning News reports.
The stroke of genius that allows these schools to function is a corporate
work-study program in which all students work one day a week at an entry-level professional job.
Through a regional educational service agency program, Campbell was matched with a company he knew from the
work-study program he coordinates for special ed students.
Blankenship, a teacher assistant in a North Kingstown high school
work-study program, co-teaches the opening class on "Collaboration and Team Building" with NEARI President Larry Purtill.
With all of the financial aid options available today, coupled with the expertise of your financial aid counselor, finding a scholarship, grant, assistantship,
work-study program or loan that is right for you is not as difficult as you think.
An African-American woman helps put herself through school by participating in the college
work-study program at a Virginia hospital, and, in little more than a decade, assumes leadership of a hospital in Illinois, building bridges between the institution and its African-American patients.
For those firms unable to offer summer placements, a cooperative
work-study program could provide many of the same benefits as an internship.
They have enrolled in New York University's Stern School of Business master's of science in accounting program and will be employed periodically at Deloitte & Touche as part of the 18-month
work-study program. Robinson has completed her junior year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is majoring in speech communications.
