Overview of the Graduate Student Worker Program

Graduate & Extended Studies at East Stroudsburg University offers an excellent graduate student worker program. The primary purpose of the Graduate Student Worker Program is to provide university departments and units a student workforce in specific job areas and to support the students’ need to obtain practical work experience. Positions requested must reflect a need for a highly specialized trained student with advanced knowledge of the work field. Graduate Student Workers need to possess a highly maintained set of technical skills and should be working in a field related to their academic pursuit. Graduate & Extended Studies is the designated unit on campus to offer Graduate Student Worker positions to departments and other units on campus.  Graduate Student Worker positions do not include tuition waivers.

The Request for a Graduate Student Worker Position is a request for a GSW position for the current year only. If a unit is awarded a GSW position, then the review of graduate student worker applications or recommendation of a current graduate student for the position will follow. Once again, the office of Graduate Studies is the designated unit to make an official offer of a Graduate Student Worker to a student. To be eligible to receive a Graduate Student Worker position, graduate students must be admitted into a graduate program, enrolled in a minimum of 5 credits, and in academic good standing. 

New students who have not yet established academic standing in Graduate & Extended Studies are required to have a 3.00 GPA as an undergraduate, both overall and in their major.

A full-time Graduate Student Worker position offers a graduate student 20 hours of work experiences per week (300 hours per semester, or 600 hours per academic year) with a stipend between $8.34-$15.00/ an hour. 

A half-time Graduate Student Worker position offers a graduate student 10 hours of work experiences per week (150 hours per semester, or 300 hours per academic year) with a stipend between $8.34-$15.00/ an hour.