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Show Students Benefit From Work-Study Program MONEY. A constant problem for most students. Where and how do you get it? The answer is usually work. But where do you go to find work? : The work study program was developed to solve just such problems. prob-lems. Its purpose is to aid students financially by giving them some kind of work. Jobs vary from secretarial sec-retarial positions to maintenance men to research assistants to librarians. li-brarians. This year the program has even expanded to include nonprofit non-profit organizations off-campus, i.e. the YMCA, Boy and Girl Scouts, Job Corps and Boys Ranch. Wages are the same fon work study students as they are for regular reg-ular University employees $1.25 to $3.00 an hour depending on the position. The program, which is subsidized by the federal government, came into being as a result of the Economic Eco-nomic Act of 1964. Under the Of fice of Economic Opportunity, it came to the University in 1965. Most colleges and universities throughout the United States have similiar programs. Under the present program, the departmen in which the student is employee pays 15 per cent of his wages. The federal government pays 85 per cent. August 20 it will change and . the department will pay 20 per cent. Students who wish to apply for the program must fall into one of two categories. They must come from families of low income, or fall into the group called "other needy." The latter group could include in-clude almost anyone needing financial fi-nancial aid. The program allows a student to earn about $850 in a 12-month period. The minimum contract wage is $500; the maximum is $3600. (Continued on Page 3) Work-Study Aids Students (Continued from Page 1) While employed, an undergraduate undergrad-uate student must take a rninimum of 12 credit hours or the equivalent. equiva-lent. A graduate student must have a minimum of 10 hours. No grade point average is required. A student stu-dent must just be admitted, to the University. The program's main purpose is to help undergraduate students. As a result, only one-fifth to one-fourth one-fourth of the students are graduates. gradu-ates. 15-Hour Week If a student plans to work during school, he is allowed to work only 15 hours a week. In the summer and between quarters a work study students may work a 40-hour week. Applications for the work study program must be made hy May 1 for the next year. Each year runs from July 1 to July 1 Tie; program pro-gram can be continued: fdftfe one year to another, but the? slBdent must reapply every yearr "The program- has presete ta. be quite a success," said- KfrSv Ruth Wllles, personnel speciahst- "Last year we had 82? students working at various times. It is a program to help those who need it" Any student that is interested in the program mayobtain further information in-formation at the Office of Financial Aid. |