Project Details
Hiring Manager: Tess Grunseich, Director for Supplemental Instruction, Tutoring and Academic Coaching
Total Hours: 200
Project Stipend: $5000
Project Goals and Objectives/Methods to be used to achieve the goals and objectives
The goal of this position will stem around the climate and ideas that come to mind when thinking about academic support. We will be asking a graduate student to research and analyze the campus climate regarding ideas of asking for help, what tutoring means to them and how much they generally know about CAST. Using this information, this person will adapt some of our current content and media to establish a more positive view point and tackle some of the challenges they noticed. This will be done through projects in our staff canvas page, revitalizing and adapting workshops, in particular expanding our audience to reach graduate students’ needs, and then designing marketing to the campus community that addresses deficits noticed in their research.
Skill Set Developed
The skill sets below we feel match well with graduate students studying higher education, industrial and organizational psychology, other counseling, and MBA programs which will be our target audience. These are tasks that overlap with many job descriptions and experiences in the fields.
- Assessment
- Research and Citation
- Marketing and Advertising
- Communication
- Presentation
- Organization
- Time Management
Required Training
- Tutorlingo Skill Presentations
- Attendance at CAST workshops to build foundation
- Review of iGrad materials
- Meetings and shadowing CAST Staff to gain understanding of our office
Key Deliverables
Most tasks connected to this role may run concurrently but the position can be broken down into 3 major responsibilities areas: workshops, marketing and canvas shells. Each of these projects will be running all three months with tasks scaffolding to the next in the three major areas. For example, the intern might start by updating a workshop on Time Management for undergraduate students before using that design to then create the graduate focused presentation.
- Create 2-3 Graduate Student Focused Success Skill Presentations designed with an older audience in mind
- Facilitation of a graduate student workshop presentation
- Lead a tabling event per month
- Modernize 5 CAST Undergraduate focused workshops
- Record and update materials in CAST tutor training canvas shell to include video tutorials, including templates
- Design hand out materials students can gain access to for free in the CAST center
- Create a social media schedule for the next academic year using Instagram and/or Tiktok to promote engagement and services with the university
- Find marketing partners to connect with across campus and discuss CAST through the lens of removing stigma
- Host Tabling and information events across campus
- Create a Qualtrics/Google Form survey to send to the University to gauge student/staff/faculty awareness for CAST