On Campus Employment
Good Morning,
I have emailed a few schools to get their responses but thought I would also post my questions on here as well. We have always had our summer OCE jobs as 35 hours due to students needing summer positions and giving them full time opportunities between academic years. Now we are having more and more spring/summer semesters for students and wanting to give them opportunity as well to work on Campus, my questions are:
Does your school allow full time positions in the summer, do have a maximum set on hours all year around and what is the maximum hours?
Does your school pay out only 75% as per old workstudy rules or do you pay 100% of the students payroll based on the max hours you allow?
We are finding at Loyalist departments are asking for students at the maximum we allow and then do not use them for the full hours per semester, and causing underspending, any other school have this issue?
I appreciate any feedback, sometimes I wish I could just decide to use all the TSA for bursaries, as OCE is a huge headache at Loyalist.
Good morning!
At OCAD University, we don't specify the hours per position - instead, departments submit their requests for a total number of funded hours to approve. Some departments hire fewer students for more hours, while others hire many students for just a few hours a week, depending on their operational needs.
We fund 100% of the cost of student employment, but the university requires each department to contribute back 25% of the cost of work-study positions, so that allocations aren't zero cost to each department's budget.
We have also seen some departments underspend their allocations. When reviewing applications for each term, we look at the prior year ask and actual hours used, to help inform what we approve each unit. We are conservative in awarding hours, as we know that a couple of departments regularly go over their allocations - so we are sometimes able to use underspent funds to help with their cost overages.
I will say that the enthusiastic participation in our work study program has put pressure on our TSA budget, and we'll continue to look carefully at how we balance these competing needs.
Hope that helps!
Anik