Friends of St. Catherine University Libraries, Core Curriculum and Centers of Excellence Graduate Assistant

Position Description

The Core Curriculum and Centers of Excellence work to provide unique opportunities for St Kate's students to integrate their liberal arts learning through interdisciplinary courses and programs. Center programs are designed to reach across academic disciplines and engage students and faculty in collaborative work. They include diverse participants and perspectives, involve active, participatory approaches, work with community partners, and support action research. The Core Curriculum office provides support for our two unique "bookend" courses required of all baccalaureate students: The Reflective Woman and The Global Search for Justice. It also works closely with the Centers of Excellence to support a variety of interdisciplinary curricular enrichment programs.

Working under the direction of St. Kate's Centers of Excellence mentors, the graduate assistant will have the opportunity to expand upon knowledge gained in the classroom. The graduate assistant will attain valuable work experience while assisting the Centers of Excellence to complete important projects.

The Graduate Assistantship is awarded for 15 weeks total in fall or spring semester and requires a commitment of approximately ten hours per week. The rate of pay is $12.00 per hour and the position does not include tuition remission or benefits.

Requirements for All positions

Current opportunity

The COE and Core programs are providing a position for an MLIS graduate assistant to help with a re-design of the COE webpages to update information on, particularly, the Assistantship Mentoring Program, the ACTC Leaders for Literacy Project, and the Center for Women, Science, and Technology. In addition, as the Core website was recently revised, support is needed for an administrative assistant to become more familiar with routine site updating and maintenance.

The primary responsibility will be to assist faculty and staff educators with research and information needs. This may include: research assistance, the creation of webpages, bibliographies, and pathfinders, or interviewing, etc.

Contact Information

Contact Carol Johnson (cpjohnson@stkate.edu) or 651-690-6650 with questions about the assistantship.

Application Deadline

October 1, 2009 by 5:00 pm

Application

A complete application should include a brief cover letter, MLIS grade report and the following information:

• Name
• Mailing address
• Email address
• Phone number(s)
• A brief (3-5 sentence response) to the following questions:
  • 1. What interests you about this graduate assistantship?
  • 2. What experience, qualities and strengths would you bring to the assistantship?
  • 3. What goals would you like to accomplish as part of this assistantship?
• Please list one reference (from an academic or work setting -- no relatives, please)

Please send application by email to: Carol Johnson, cpjohnson@stkate.edu . By mail, send to: Carol Johnson, M.S. #F-10, 2004 Randolph, St. Paul, MN 55105.