RE: Getting word out to students?

Marilyn and Co...

At 12:14 PM 9/29/2006, Marilyn Saarni wrote:
>Probably the fastest link would be through the students affairs officers.

Great idea!

><snip>
> My own prejudice is that if you stick to work study employees
> only, you're limiting your pool of potentials enormously,
> especially if you want them to already have well-developed skills.

Limited resources cause us to stay with that pool, if there are other
subsidized options I would like to know of them.

> Don't forget that lower income students, who are most motivated to
> show up on the job, often figure out that work study awards lower
> their total financial aid cash package, and they end up with less
> financial support over a school year when they take work study jobs.

Interesting...

> I myself, many years ago, discovered that work study tends to pay
> less than market-rate part-time jobs when the worker has sellable
> professional skills (like html coding).

At $12 - 15 / hour I hope we can attract someone, it is looking dicey so far.

> But if you plan to train, this is less of an issue.

I find that students do pick it up pretty quickly. Doing a QA check
on their work is onerous to begin with but after awhile they take
ownership and the system works pretty good: user logs job into DB for
tracking and sends material if needed, student does the work, the
editor or I QA and I then "push the button".

It all works well when we have students...

John

>- Marilyn
>
>
>At 11:12 AM -0700 9/29/06, Judith Foster wrote:
>>Getting word out to students can be done through the web managers as
>>contacts for the students in their departments. Or through whoever has the
>>lists for their department's students. I receive and send items of interest
>>to both grads and undergrads and simply pass the information to them through
>>the list serve with a link to the relevant web page. Not high tech but it
>>works.
>>
>>Judith
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-webnet-list@lists.berkeley.edu
>>[mailto:owner-webnet-list@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of John Ingham
>>Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:00 AM
>>To: Monica Friedlander; webnet-list@uclink4.berkeley.edu
>>Subject: Re: [Webnet] Getting word out to students?
>>
>>
>>Getting through to the students, especially under grads, is what we
>>would like to know as well in our search for student assistance.
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated by us as well...
>>
>>John
>>
>>At 10:37 AM 9/29/2006, Monica Friedlander wrote:
>>>Hi everyone,
>>>
>>>I'm not sure this is the proper place to ask this, but maybe someone
>>>has a suggestion.
>>>
>>>I need to get word out to students about a small contest we're
>>>running in L&S. It's fairly urgent, and I can't find any means to
>>>distribute news to a large population like this. I tried a few leads
>>>but no luck. I know there's always Daily Cal and bulletin boards and
>>>such, but I'm trying to go a little more high tech here ...
>>>
>>>I'd appreciate your suggestions.
>>>
>>>Monica
>>>
>>>Monica Friedlander ~ Communications Manager ~ College of Letters and
>>Science
>>>201 Campbell Hall ~ UC Berkeley ~ Berkeley, CA 94720 ~ 510. 642. 1307
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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