For some college students, the weekends and weeknights call for studying and time with your friends. However, for other college students, their weekends and weeknights are filled with work.
Whether it be in a dining hall, an arena, or a laundry room, the students that embark in federally-granted work study are some of the hardest working students on college campuses. However, the problem is that work-study students are usually vastly underpaid and sometimes even find themselves running out of their federal stipend by the end of the school year.
“I work almost every weekend, but it still feels like I am falling short.” Mike Strazik, a biology major at Quinnipiac said, “I just wish there were higher paying jobs on campus.”
According to the 2011–12 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:12), only six percent of college students do work study,
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Most Quinnipiac University students find themselves picking up shifts at one of the food establishments on campus, the athletic-laundry rooms, or holding mundane desk jobs at the university's offices that are scattered around the three campuses. However, Strazik struck gold, landing one of the most revered work-study jobs on campus ,working in the Sports and Information department with Quinnipiac Athletics.
“I got lucky plain and simple. I had friends working in the department and they told their boss, Ken Sweeten, and I was brought on almost immediately,” Strazik said, “But I couldn’t imagine where I would be if I didn’t have friends already in jobs in the departments.”
The next struggle is the pay. Most work-study students are given minimum-wage paying jobs regardless of the job itself. For college students, the $10-an-hour pay, Connecticut’s minimum wage, usually only affords them around $150 dollars in a two-week pay period. For someone who lives off campus, like Strazik, it can be
Alene Semuels is a writer for The Atlantic, and formerly wrote for The Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The author's purpose for writing this article was to inform college students and the public about opportunities to work while in college. Also it shows college students that working a full time job might not be the wisest thing to do while attending college full time. When this article was written, there was a new trend beginning to arise. In 2015, Georgetown University did a study of students who worked while in college. They found that 70 percent of students were employed while in college and 25 percent of those students are working full time while simultaneously going to college full time. Both the Chicago Tribune and CNBC wrote articles about the findings in the Georgetown study. Putting these things together, Semuels felt persuaded to talk about the topic from two
In the event corresponding federal agencies deny financial aid to a potential recipient, they still may become eligible for one of the many non-federal work-study programs offered throughout the country at different institutions. Similar to federal programs, these encourage students to seek employment in fields related to their academic studies whenever possible. And while jobs on-campus offer convenient logistics for the student, no such guarantee exists in meeting those accommodations.
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