Enhancing Student Success through Student Employment Opportunities
Explore how student employment can enhance student success and educational impact by providing structured opportunities for reflection, articulation, and integration of learning. Learn how campus supervisors can support student growth and development through meaningful work experiences.
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Enhancing Student Success and Educational Impact though Student Employment For student employees by: Providing structures opportunities for student to reflect and integrate learning Allowing students to practice talking about what they are learning on the job Helping students think about transferable skills and how those might help in other parts of their lives For campus supervisors by: Providing opportunities to serve as educators and caring adult supporters Providing tools to help students learn real-world skills in the workplace Providing training to be more effective supervisors and hiring managers
To convert student employment into a high-impact practice by providing structured opportunities for students to reflect on, articulate, and integrate what they are learning and make the connection To help students: Reflect on transferable skills they have learned or developed on the job Articulate transferable skills they have learned or developed on the job Integrate transferable skills through connections between class and work Reflection Articulation Integration
Making Student Employment High-Impact Identified outcomes ( We know what we want them to know or be able to do) Deliberate reflection Scaffolding- using prompts that encourage students to connect previous knowledge and experience to new knowledge and experiences. Campus employmentcan be a high- impact activity for our students with some additional structure from us (supervisors). High Impact Examples: First-year seminars Undergraduate research Internships Capstone courses/projects Collaborative assignments and projects
Benefits for Supervisors When students make connections to the workplace, they are more invested. Invested employees do better work and feel more committed and responsible to you. These conversations also open the line of communication between you and your employees.
This job helped me learn a lot of soft skills that I wasnt learning in class. In class I learn a lot of technical stuff but here I learned how to work with people and how to talk like a professional. Because of the work I ve done here I was ready for every single question I was asked during my [post-graduation] interviews. -Housing Desk Services Employee I think my campus job taught me a lot that will be helpful in my future career choices. The skills that stand out to me is delegation, team management, and organizational skills in terms of planning. -SLICE Student Employee The job fits around my school schedule and helps me manage my time much better, I tend to get my academic work done more efficiently in order to make time for my job. -Gelfand Center Student Employee My work as a student employee has introduced me to new people on campus and academic resources I was not previously aware of. -CPDC Student Employee
