Scholarship Service Program Departments

The departments listed below participated in the Scholarship Service Program during the 2007-2008 academic year. A brief description of typical tasks and assignments is listed for each department. Service hours must generally be completed during normal office hours of 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. Please visit the SSP website at http://scholarships.web.mtsu.edu/ssp.htm for more information about the Scholarship Service Program.

Q: If a department is listed, does that mean they will accept new students this year?

A: Please note that inclusion on this list does not guarantee that a department will have positions available in a given year. Availability depends on the number of students requested by the department, as well as the number of students returning to the department from the prior semester. Generally, departments which use only a small number of students will have few or no positions available for new students.

Q: How do I request a particular department?

A: You may request up to four departments by adding your top choices to your scholarship agreement form. If you wish to add to or change your request after submitting the form, please contact me at bmccarty@mtsu.edu. Be sure to include your name, MTSU ID number, and details of the change you wish to make. All requests must be made by May 31. We cannot guarantee that you will be placed in a requested department, though we are generally able to meet 80% of all requests; you can increase your chance of being approved if you request four departments and make sure at least one accepts a large number of students (see below).

Scholarship Service Program Departments (listed in alphabetical order):

Academic Outreach/Dist. Learning

This department typically requests 3 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students are involved in processing mail, answering phone calls, typing memos, running errands, and helping in the office.

Academic Support Center

This department typically requests 10 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students are involved in answering the phone, setting up appointments, running errands, checking the mail, running the shredder, and assisting as necessary.

Accounting

This department typically requests 15 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students work for professors, sorting files, copying documents, and performing other tasks as requested.

Accounts Payable

This department typically requests 3 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students answer phones, open and sort mail, file, assist with document inventory, perform some data entry, run some errands and may help with other tasks as needed.

Adams Chair of Excellence

This department typically requests 4 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students are involved in typing, copying, running errands, picking up mail, assisting with mailings, making phone calls, administering and compiling surveys, information gathering, and other duties, particularly for grant projects.

Admissions

This department typically requests 20 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Please contact the department at 898-2237 for information about job duties.

Aerospace

This department typically requests 25 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students make post office runs, do photocopying, make deliveries on campus, and perform general office work. Aerospace majors are preferred.

Agribusiness

This department typically requests 20 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Please contact the department at 898-2523 for information about job duties.

Alumni Relations

This department typically requests 3 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students do basic office work: photocopying, assisting with inventory, completing Homecoming tasks (such as putting together packets or grab bags for our alumni, honorees, and guests), filing, errands, assembling packets, and sending out mailings.

Art

This department typically requests 10 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students work in the slide library, with teachers, or do filing.

Athletic Media Relations

This department typically requests 6 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students help with research projects, compiling newspaper articles, and various other jobs.

Athletic Ticket Office

This department typically requests 4 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students sell tickets via a computer software program.  Must be available to work ALL home football games during the fall semester, in addition to some office hours. During spring semester, will work a minimum of 8 baseball games, in addition to office work.

Athletics

This department typically requests 16 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Please contact the department at 898-2452 for information about job duties.

Audio Visual Services

This department typically requests 6 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Please contact the department at 898-2737 for information about job duties.

Biology

This department typically requests 40 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Assisting faculty with lab set up preparation and organization, copying materials, creating and monitoring databases, Assisting the departmental office staff by serving as receptionist, Monitoring the departmental computer lab.

Business & Economic Research Center

This department typically requests 4 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Please contact the department at 898-2610 for information about job duties.

Business Communication & Entrepreneurship

This department typically requests 5 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Copying, filing, previewing online papers (after a training period), some possible grading of papers, general office work.

Business Office

This department typically requests 2 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Please contact the department at 898-2171 for information about job duties.

Campus Recreation

This department typically requests 40 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Please visit http://www.mtsu.edu/~camprec/employment.html for information about job duties and instructions on how to apply for a position with Campus Rec. Interested students must contact this department directly, rather than requesting placement on the scholarship agreement form.

Campus School

This department typically requests 35 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students work in the classroom grading papers and doing bulletin boards.

Career and Placement Center

This department typically requests 7 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Event Management: assisting with implementation of career fairs; Marketing: promoting services and programs to students, faculty, staff, and employers; Data Entry: updating employer database and online job postings; Customer Service: answering phones and providing information to visitors.

Career and Technical Education

This department typically requests 2 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students do basic office work: photocopy, fax, file, answer phones, assist with paperwork, enter data, run errands, assemble packets, load/unload conference materials, and other special assignments.

Center for Student Involvement and Leadership

This department typically requests 10 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students help process paper work, answer phones, and work at the front desk. Students also actively participate in events, promotions, and activities hosted by the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership.

Center of Environmental Education

This department typically requests 6 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students may assist faculty or staff with such tasks as paperwork, filing, data entry, photocopying, recycling, on-campus errands, assembling packets, preparing mailings, and completing other special assignments. Biology, Science, or Education interest encouraged, but not required.

Chair of Finance

This department typically requests 9 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties may include the following: Assist with class attendance and other functions, make copies, file, perform computer tasks such as typing letters, checking email, and doing research.  May assist with golf tournament arrangements.

Chair of Insurance

This department typically requests 15 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Type materials, reports, examinations, articles, and other material as assigned; Perform functions such as checking the mail, filing documents, and organizing photographs activities; Retrieve information for research projects; Answer phone and greet visitors.

Chemistry

This department typically requests 26 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students may perform the following tasks:  grade tests/quizzes, copy, assist with research, monitor the computer lab, post announcements, answer the phone, file and organize archived information, deliver paperwork to other campus offices, pick-up/deliver mail to campus post office, etc.

College of Basic & Applied Sciences

This department typically requests 3 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Job duties include filing, typing (using Word and Excel), running errands, copying and collating materials, occasionally completing internet searches for data.

College of Business

This department typically requests 6 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students do basic office work such as photocopying, answering phones, greeting visitors, filing, and running errands. Some students may be asked to help advisors make file folders, look up or input information in Banner, and help with CUSTOMS preparations.

College of Graduate Studies

This department typically requests 2 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students run errands, file, relieve front desk personnel, and do general office work.

Computer Information Systems

This department typically requests 12 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students do clerical work in the office, and various academic/clerical jobs and projects for the departmental faculty.

Computer Science

This department typically requests 7 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students do grading, errands, and office work.

Continuing Education

This department typically requests 2 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students will perform general clerical work.  This may include working with documents in MS Office, filing, answering the phone, and directing questions to correct department.

Counseling and Testing Services

This department typically requests 2 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties may include answering the phone, helping walk-ins, proctoring exams, using the computer, and completing other duties as assigned.

Criminal Justice

This department typically requests 5 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Basic office duties including, but not limited to, answering phones, greeting visitors, copying, running errands on campus, and moving items up and down stairs.

Dean Of Student Life

This department typically requests 3 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Checking and distributing mail, Answering phone. Assisting in calendar management for three staff members, Making copies for judicial files, Verifying background checks, Running errands on campus.

Disabled Student Services

This department typically requests 40 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Selected scholarship recipients will provide individual or classroom assistance to students with disabilities. Some recipients will be selected to assist with general office duties.

Dyslexic Studies

This department typically requests 7 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties include the following: Answer phones, greet visitors/clients, photocopy, shred, assemble packets, file, on-campus mail delivery, and mailings.  May be asked to assist with research projects, retrieve journal articles, assist with data entry, and compile evaluation scores.

Economics & Finance

This department typically requests 8 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Please contact the department at 898-2520 for information about job duties.

Educational Leadership

This department typically requests 5 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students are involved in daily activities such as typing, copying, organizing, answering the phone or running errands. May be assigned to work with a faculty member or work in the main office.

Electronic Media Communication

This department typically requests 25 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students file, make copies, run errands across campus, type, work on projects, and do some  work as a lab assistant.

Elementary Education

This department typically requests 15 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Please contact the department at 898-5016 for information about job duties.

Engineering Technology

This department typically requests 20 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Office positions involve making copies, typing, dusting, standard office work, monitoring and cleaning computer labs, and grading blue print drawings.

English

This department typically requests 5 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties include distributing mail in faculty/staff mailboxes, making copies, alphabetizing and filing, delivery/pick-up of on-campus correspondence, stocking copy paper, and maintaining the mailroom with necessary supplies for daily operations.

Enrollment Services

This department typically requests 1 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students generally perform general office work, such as answering phones, making copies, filing, and on-campus mail delivery.

Financial Aid Office

This department typically requests 10 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Most students are involved in filing. Some students may be assigned to specific staff and may complete tasks such as answering the phone, assisting with paperwork and data entry, and complete other special assignments.

Foreign Languages

This department typically requests 12 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students will work in the language lab and help the students on the computers.

Forensic Institute for Research

This department typically requests 1 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students help with research projects, answer the phone, greet visitors, do filing, and assist with on-campus mail delivery. They also do data entry and complete other special assignments, such as photocopying, assembling packets, and sending out mailings.

Geosciences

This department typically requests 15 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students help in the labs with copying, grading papers, running errands, and in the office with copying, grading papers, running errands, and assembling exams.

Global Studies

This department typically requests 1 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students will complete work such as designing and posting fliers. Need someone with flexible hours.

Gore Research Center

This department typically requests 9 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Preference to workers with strong computer skills in MS Access, Word, and Photoshop. Assist with database entry, transcribing from audio tapes, photo scanning, copying, and processing archived collections. This department is not currently accepting scholarship students, due to upcoming staffing changes.

Health and Human Performance

This department typically requests 10 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties to include:  Light clerical, filing, answering phones, on campus deliveries/errands, copying, assisting with special projects, binding, laminating, data entry, assist faculty/ staff and students, assist with equipment maintenance and check out and other similar duties as assigned. Students are usually assigned within their major or area of interest, when applicable.

History

This department typically requests 12 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students take items to the library and run various other errands.  Some work for professors doing tasks such as recording grades, making copies, and ordering test booklets.

Housing and Residential Life

This department typically requests 25 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students may perform duties in the office such as running errands, picking up mail, filing, answering the phone. May also work at the front desk in halls answering phone, talking with students and parents, and assisting area coordinators.

Human Resources

This department typically requests 6 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Most students are involved in filing. Some students may be assigned to specific staff and may complete tasks such as answering the phone, assisting with paperwork and data entry, and complete other special assignments.

Human Science

This department typically requests 18 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties may include copying, filing, running errands on campus, shredding, grading, or other tasks.  Some students are assigned to specific faculty and some work at the front desk.

Information Technology

This department typically requests 4 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Please contact the department at 898-2512 for information about job duties.

Institutional Diversity

This department typically requests 5 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties may include but are not limited to the following: Identify tutors and mentors for academy students, Assist with clerical tasks, File, Pull reports and gather info online, Check and deliver mail.

Institutional Effectiveness

This department typically requests 2 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties are mostly clerical, such as test preparation, stuffing envelopes for mailings, binding reports, and campus mail delivery.

Instructional Media Resources

This department typically requests 7 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students sit at the circulation desk scanning IDs and assisting students with videos.

James E. Walker Library

This department typically requests 93 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties are dependent on department placement within library.  May include tasks such as shelving books, checking out books, assisting patrons with locating materials, or assisting with processing new books for circulation. Tasks may be detail-oriented.

Journalism

This department typically requests 10 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties such as filing, sorting mail, and making copies.

June Anderson Women's Center

This department typically requests 5 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students may be assigned to specific jobs, answering the phone, greeting visitors, assisting with paperwork , data entry, and complete other special assignments. Also may have to post fliers and do on-campus errands.

Liberal Arts

This department typically requests 5 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Please contact the department at 898-2534 for information about job duties.

Management & Marketing

This department typically requests 14 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students will work with faculty members to help with various jobs (alphabetizing, filing, shredding, copying, etc.)

Mass Communications

This department typically requests 16 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties may include the following: Filing, Answering phone and taking messages, Receiving and sending faxes, Greeting visitors, Giving tours, Making copies,

Updating forms, Managing mail, Assisting staff and other departments as necessary.

Mathematics

This department typically requests 10 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students are placed with faculty doing things such as grading and office work.

McNair Program

This department typically requests 2 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties such as paper work, answering phone, filing, simple Word and Excel documents, and putting together notebooks. (Note: mobility is tight.)

Military Science

This department typically requests 2 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students do basic office work: photocopying, assisting supply tech with inventory (such as counting uniforms, boots, etc.), filing, errands such as picking up mail, assembling packets, and sending out mailings.

MTSU Child Care Lab

This department typically requests 10 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Assist teachers with supervision of classroom and playground, assist with activity preparation, help implement activities according to lesson plans and for special events, assist serving meals/snacks, and interact with children.

Multicultural Affairs

This department typically requests 5 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students do basic office work such as photocopying, assisting with inventory, completing Celebratory event tasks, designing and distributing posters/fliers, filing, errands, assembling packets, and sending out mailings.

Music

This department typically requests 31 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Please contact the department at 898-2469 for information about job duties.

National Healthcare Chair of Excellence

This department typically requests 10 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students will deliver documents to other offices, assist with filing and shredding documents, research data on the internet, make copies of tests or other documents, input data, answer telephone, monitor computer labs, and complete other tasks.

New Student and Family Programs

This department typically requests 15 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Student responsiblities include answering phones, filing papers, and sometimes running errands on campus.

News And Public Affairs

This department typically requests 4 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Must have major in Journalism, Public Relations, or English; excellent writing skills required. Student will also run errands and operate basic office machines, such as fax and copier. Attendance at weekly meeting required.

Nursing

This department typically requests 20 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students will deliver documents to other offices, assist with filing and shredding documents, research data on the internet, make copies of tests or other documents, input data, answer telephone, monitor computer labs, and complete other tasks.

Off-Campus Student Services

This department typically requests 10 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties may include greeting visitors and provide directions within building, answering phone, checking mail, giving out green permits, helping with computer issues, and assisting with annual conference.

Philosophy

This department typically requests 7 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students assist in the main office with office-type work, and occasionally run errands.

Physics

This department typically requests 6 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties may include the following: Web searches or data entry on a computer, Use of a typewriter, copier, scanner, or shredder, On-campus deliveries, Mail delivery and pickup, Answering the phone and taking messages, Grading multiple choice. Students with advanced skills may be asked to perform tasks such as reformatting web page content or backing up computer files.

Political Science

This department typically requests 11 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties include performing research on the internet, picking up deliveries, library runs, filing, and form mailing.

Prof Dev and Personal Enrichment

This department typically requests 10 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Typical work assignments include Delivery and pick up of mail, Data entry, Making copies, Mailing materials, Answering phones, Sending Faxes, Filing, and Other duties as assigned.

Project Help

This department typically requests 15 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Working with the children in the room, making copies, working on the PECS system and various other jobs, making lunches, sitting with the children during nap time.

Psychology

This department typically requests 23 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Most of our workers do basic office work: photocopying, returning tapes to LRC, errands and stuffing envelopes for mail outs. Others assist faculty with research.

Recording Industry

This department typically requests 13 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students will perform general office duties such as filing, photocopies, answering phones and directing students, compiling and mailing prospective student packets, data entry, and delivering on-campus mail. May also assist with special projects for faculty. Lab workers will assist with running and maintaining studio equipment and answer questions regarding the equipment.

Records

This department typically requests 6 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: General office work, answering phones, filing and on-campus mail delivery.  Some students are assigned to specific staff and perform duties such as answering the phone, assisting with paperwork and data entry, and other duties as assigned.

Research & Sponsored Programs

This department typically requests 1 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Stock and monitor office supplies, Shred daily and empty shredder, Monitor the recycle paper, Cover secretary’s desk when away, File, Make deliveries on campus.

Scheduling Center

This department typically requests 4 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Scheduling Center Student Workers may answer the phone, assist students in navigating RaiderNet, process drop/add and late registration forms, file and may be asked to use Microsoft Word or Excel.

Seigenthaler Chair: 1st Amendment Studies

This department typically requests 4 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students primarily assist with clerical and administrative duties such as copying and filing. In addition, students are given the opportunity to help with special projects and events sponsored by the Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence.

Sidelines

This department typically requests 1 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Working with newspapers in reference to tearsheets of advertisements and classifieds; maintaining our archival system; light mailings; occasional answering of telephone; some errands to bookstore and/or CAB building. Independent worker.

Social Work

This department typically requests 10 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Job consists of computer work in Microsoft Office, running errands (such as taking mail across campus), and other academic office related duties.

Sociology & Anthropology

This department typically requests 5 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students normally do some general office work, answering phones, photocopying, greeting visitors, and on-campus mail delivery.  Some students may be assigned to specific staff and may complete tasks such as answering the phone, assisting with paperwork and data entry, and complete other special assignments.

Speech and Hearing Clinic

This department typically requests 7 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Must be Communication Disorders major. Duties will include the following: File, Run errands, Answer phone, Work with computers (Word and Excel), Possibly work for faculty member.

Speech and Theater

This department typically requests 15 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students will be assigned to area such as Scene Shop, Lighting, Costume Shop, Dance, or main office. Duties vary by area but may include administrative duties, running errands, and area-specific tasks.

Student Affairs

This department typically requests 1 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties include the following: Check and sort mail; Make copies; Send faxes; Distribute materials to other departments; Assist with answering telephone and filing.

Student Athlete Enhancement Center

This department typically requests 14 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Most students will assist in checking class attendance for students on a roster. Other students may perform office duties such as delivering documents to other offices and picking up materials, managing the copier, and running errands.

Student Health Services

This department typically requests 2 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: This department is not currently accepting scholarship students, due to the upcoming relocation of the office.

Student Programming

This department typically requests 2 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students do office work such as data entry, answering the phone, copying, taking deposits to Cope Admin Bldg, and running errands.  May be asked to unload supplies from loading dock.

Student Support Services

This department typically requests 2 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students normally do some general office work, answering phones, greeting visitors, filing, and on-campus mail delivery.

Student Unions and Programming

This department typically requests 2 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Staff the KUC information desk (open between 8am and 4pm), help Student Unions staff with various functions, including room set-up, Lost & Found management, and flier approvals. Must be a sophomore or higher; must be able to answer general questions about MTSU.

Study Abroad

This department typically requests 12 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students will work with international students and American students who wish to study abroad, on tasks such as campus advertising, maintaining database, and making folders.  Preference to students who are interested in international issues.

TECTA

This department typically requests 4 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties include the following: Mailouts, on-campus delivery, packets, filing, copying, phones, typing, pulling books and materials for classes and replacing them, and laminating.

Tennessee Center for Child Welfare

This department typically requests 6 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Manage records of office activities, business transactions, and other activities. Operate copier, scanner, fax machine, and computer.  Record data, records, and reports. Maintain filing, inventory, mailing, and database systems.

TLSAMP

This department typically requests  students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students complete regular data enty work assigned on a project by project basis. Students also do some general office work, answering phones, making copies, filing, and on-campus mail delivery.

Transfer Office

This department typically requests 7 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students perform basic clerical work, run errands, do program preparations and lab work.

Undergraduate Research Center

This department typically requests 1 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: This is a one person office that needs help with general office work – filing, copying, scanning, delivering, typing spreadsheets, setting up new files, entering data, internet searching, etc. Students do not answer phone or perform customer service.

University Honors College

This department typically requests 7 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students do general clerical work or run errands. Some will be selected to work with the "Collage" staff to prepare the annual publication.

University Writing Center

This department typically requests 10 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students primarily do light receptionist work and filing, attend to walk-in students, answer the phone, address quick questions, and maintain the schedule and semester statistics. May occasionally assist in the computer lab.

Vice President of Business And Finance

This department typically requests 4 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students normally do general office work, filing, copying, answering phones, on-campus mail delivery.

Withdrawal Office

This department typically requests 4 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Duties include the following: Answer phone and take messages. Type withdrawal forms and mail copies to departments. Check mail. File and make photocopies. Use facsimile machine to forward memorandums to departments regarding a student's absence from class.

WMOT Radio Station

This department typically requests 6 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: General office work, or on the air radio work, working with Public Service Announcements

Women's Studies

This department typically requests 3 students per year, including returning students.

Typical tasks: Students normally do some general office work, answering phones, greeting visitors, filing, and on-campus mail delivery, errands, posting flyers and distributing newsletters.