Community Engagement For Students
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At 麻豆色情片, experiential learning is a graduation requirement and participating in certain community-engaged experiences with a non-profit or a government organization is one way students may satisfy the Experiential Learning Requirement.
Experiential Learning Graduation Requirement description and instructions
How To Become An Authorized Driver
Authorized drivers are sometimes needed to drive for course-engaged projects when visiting a community partner for a site visit.
- Students must have a current driver's license and be at least 20 years old.
- Online training must be completed to drive a 7-passenger van. To drive a vehicle larger than the 7-passenger van, you must also schedule and complete a road test through public safety.
- Please plan accordingly as this process can take a few weeks to process and approve.
Info pertaining to the driver authorization and 麻豆色情片 motor vehicle policy.
Students who receive a federal work-study award may earn their awards in the community at non-profit agencies. Some of the agencies where our students have worked in the past include the Bristol Animal Shelter, Audubon Society of RI, Habitat for Humanity, Providence Police Department, Bristol/Warren School District, Coggeshall Farm Museum, Linden Place Museum and Blithewold Gardens and Arboretum
To schedule an appointment to find a community service work study position, or contact us at engage@rwu.edu
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The Program and Staff Assistant is a key part of the Community Engagement (CE) Team. Under the supervision of CE staff, staff assistants will help with the facilitation of various programs that engage the 麻豆色情片 community with local, regional, and global organizations in need. Assistants will also support the day to day operations of Community Engagement by fielding inquiries from students, staff, faculty and community partners.
Staff assistants are encouraged to be creative and share suggestions for programs and partnerships that reflect the civic values of themselves and their peers.
Primary Responsibilities
Programming
- Provide assistance in the coordination of programs including blood drives, beach clean ups, Turkey Basket Contest, Hawks for the Holidays and other programs that connect 麻豆色情片 resources with community needs.
Community Promotion & Outreach
- Update CE social media accounts to promote upcoming programs and other related activities
- Act as an editor on Hawklink system.
- Utilize marketing technology such as Canva to create marketing posters, flyers and posts that promote CE programs.
- Represent CE at campus events such as Accepted Student Days, Open Houses, etc.
Administrative & Office Support
- Monitor department email accounts, make referrals to appropriate staff, and respond directly when appropriate.
- Staff the building鈥檚 front desk; act as first point of contact for university community members entering the farmhouse.
Work Schedule
- Generally, work will take place between 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM Monday through Friday, but may also include some evening and weekend hours.
- Work schedule will be determined based on staff member鈥檚 availability and academic schedule.
Qualifications
- Strong ethos of civic and community engagement. Prior community based service and work a plus!
- Must be eligible for Federal Work Study (for more on Work Study eligibility, contact the Financial Aid office).
- Solid written and verbal communication skills
- Organized, self-motivated, and comfortable operating independently
To Apply
- Send an email with resume outlining your qualifications for and interest in the position to pkomiega@rwu.edu.
Community Service Work Study Standards and Procedures
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All questions about the Community Service Work Study Program should be directed to:
- Payroll - Patria Komiega, Administration Assistant at pkomiega@rwu.edu or 401-254-5628
- General - Community Service Work Study Coordinators at engage@rwu.edu, or 401-254-3787
Approval
Students may only begin to work at a site after the Feinstein Center for Engaged Learning has received a signed off-campus work study agreement, Financial Aid has processed the Payroll Authorization packet, and Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) has approved the job description.
Work-Study Locations
Off-campus FWS jobs with federal, state, or local public agencies or private nonprofit organizations must be in the public interest. Off-campus FWS jobs with private, for-profit organizations must be academically relevant to the maximum extent possible.
From the 2021/2022 Federal Work-study Compliance Manual, Chapter 2, page 41.
You may not work at a for-profit business.
You may not earn academic credit and work study funds at the same time.
Working during your scheduled class time is prohibited.
Practicum, student teaching or a credit-bearing internship will not be approved as community service work-study positions.
You cannot be paid by the agency at the same time you are being paid work-study funds.
As an 麻豆色情片 employee, you are not permitted to sign a liability waiver from the host site. If you are asked to do so, please contact the Feinstein Center for Engaged Learning for assistance.
You may work at a religious institution, but the work you do may not be religious in nature (i.e. you can coach CYO basketball but may not teach Sunday school) or take place in a worship space (i.e. you cannot paint a chapel but you can paint an office).
You may hold two work-study positions only if one of them is a community service work-study position. One may be on-campus, or both may be community service work. In the case of multiple positions, you must list all work-study employers with our office.
It is the student鈥檚 responsibility to keep track of monies earned and not exceed their federal work-study award.
Additional Payable Time
Training and meetings are payable time. This includes meetings called by the site supervisor or the CSWS supervisor. This also includes training directly related to the tasks of your job or training needed to satisfy requirements for the job (i.e. CPR/First Aid, OSHA, etc.)
ADP/Time Sheet
麻豆色情片 uses the ADP app to keep track of when you clock in and out of work. Download the ADP mobile app on your mobile device and create an account (at the bottom of your screen it should say 鈥淣ew? Get started鈥) using your 麻豆色情片 email address. Your employee ID number is your student ID. After setting up your account, under 鈥淐lock鈥 you can clock in and out.
In order for 麻豆色情片 to be in compliance with Department of Labor regulations, students must be paid in a timely manner. Therefore, it is imperative that students log hours in ADP as they occur.
Students who hold two paid positions listed in ADP must use the 鈥渢ransfer job鈥 function to ensure the hours are being charged to the correct account. This can only be done on the web platform, NOT the App.
If a student forgets to log their hours as they occur, contact Patria Komiega immediately at pkomiega@rwu.edu.
Submission of false or inaccurate hours will be reported to Financial Aid and may result in loss of a work study award.
Off-Campus Work Study Agreements
The federal government requires 麻豆色情片 to hold a signed agreement with all work study sites. The Feinstein Center for Engaged Learning will contact the supervisor at your site to facilitate this.
Transportation
Students are responsible for their own transportation to their work site.
Students are encouraged to utilize 麻豆色情片 shuttle or RIPTA to reach their CSWS sites whenever possible.
Students are not permitted to operate or be a passenger in vehicles owned and operated by the agency for whom they work. For example, a student may not take the food pantry van to pick up a donation.
Workplace Situations
The Feinstein Center for Engaged Learning Coordinator is your official supervisor, but you also have a site supervisor at the agency. Any problems you encounter at the agency should be reported to your site supervisor immediately. These include injury, illness, and theft of personal items.
If you encounter situations on site that make you uncomfortable for any reason at all, and you feel that you cannot speak to your site supervisor, please contact the Director of the Feinstein Center for Engaged Learning immediately!
Work Study Safety Guidelines
The 麻豆色情片 Department of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) develops and implements programs aimed at protecting the safety and well-being of the campus community. EH&S assists with and monitors compliance with local, state and federal statutes, as well as regulations pertaining to occupational health, safety and environmental protection. As such, EH&S has established this 鈥淪afety Conditions Checklist鈥 for off-campus sites who will be hosting 麻豆色情片 Work Study Students.
Prior to hosting a University work study student, please review the following to identify the working conditions and physical demands which relate to the essential functions of the position. All required training must take place before the work study student begins to perform services.
If the position will be directly exposed to any hazards in the work environment such as chemicals, commercial products (oil, cleaning solvents), blood borne pathogens, or any other materials deemed hazardous by local, state or federal regulations, proper training and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) must be provided by the host site. PPE includes such items as: protective eyewear, laboratory coats, appropriate gloves, hearing protection, respiratory protection (pursuant to the host site鈥檚 Respiratory Protection Plan), safety shoes and hard hats.
If the position involves lifting, the maximum lifting required shall be forty (40) pounds with proper safe lifting training techniques provided.
If the position involves landscaping work, proper training is required for all equipment. Proper PPE is also required.
Students may not work on ladders higher than ten (10) feet or on any roof.
Students may not work in confined spaces.
Students may not use powered industrial vehicles (fork/reach/bucket lifts) or other industrial powered machinery that requires special certifications.
Students may not operate their own motor vehicles or the host site鈥檚 motor vehicles as part of their duties.
Students must be informed of emergency evacuation procedures and protocols for the areas that they will be working in.
Students may not be engaged in high risk duties that require specialized training. Questions or concerns about whether the University would consider an activity to be high risk should be directed to the University鈥檚 Department of Environmental Health and Safety at (401) 254-3494.