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Work Study Students At Vcu: Quality Versus Quantity, Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University, Denise Branch, Patti Ferguson, Daniel Park, Mary Beth Taormina
Work Study Students At Vcu: Quality Versus Quantity, Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University, Denise Branch, Patti Ferguson, Daniel Park, Mary Beth Taormina
L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs Publications
VCU Libraries’ student full-time equivalents and budget are lower than its peer institutions in the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, resulting in a significant lack of funding for student workers. The initial project goals were 1) to identify which steps the VCU Libraries could take to resolve this problem and 2) to investigate if this problem were university-wide in scope. Shortly following this determination, the president’s office VCU Update #10 proposed a “substantial increase in funding for student financial aid” and a university-wide survey on work-study was initiated by the VCU Career Center and distributed by the provost to university …