Friends of the College of St. Catherine 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 CSC 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.

Requirements for All positions

Current opportunity

The Core office is providing this position for an MLIS graduate assistant to help with a redesign of the Core webpage. The new site will include additional information on our new undergraduate Core minors and reflect the new connections between the Core and the Centers of Excellence. In addition, as the Core textbooks are revised this year, the online Ideologue that provides resources for core instructors throughout the college will need to be revised and updated.

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.

Experience designing or editing Web pages is preferred.

Contact Information

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

Application Deadline

TBA

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.