UCSC's Student Employee Recognition Program (SERAP)
Over 10,000 students attending UCSC represent an amazingly skilled
and diverse labor pool from which departments can draw almost any
required degree of ability and competence. Students have become critical
partners with the UCSC administration in providing delivery of a wide
variety of services to campus clientele. In recognition of their service,
employers of students often ask how they can reward their employees.
There is a formal method of recognizing outstanding UCSC student employee
contributions: the annual Student Employee Recognition Award Ceremony.
Among the brightest and most motivated in California, many of our
UCSC students possess skills, work experience, extremely specialized
experience and/or training which makes them invaluable assets to many
campus units. Often a strong relationship is forged between a well-qualified
student and a particular UCSC employing department. This naturally
allows student employees to assume ever increasing job responsibilities.
Those students who have recognized the importance of acquiring professional
skills as they prepare to enter the job market find this college work
experience invaluable. Through their hard work and productivity, many
students show the same dedication to quality service at UCSC as do
regular staff and faculty.
The Career Center of UCSC recognizes that students' top priority must
be their academic pursuits. The Center supports this priority by providing
students with valuable work experience while helping to supplement
their educational expenses through on-campus employment. This plays
a significant role in student retention and is particularly important
as students face the challenge of ever increasing fees during uncertain
economic times. In 1997-98, 5,352 students were employed on-campus.
The Career Center places undergraduate (and some graduate) students
in a variety of on-campus positions that range from clerical and administrative
support to advanced computer programming.
Overseeing the professional relationship between student employees
and campus departments is under the purview of the Career Center.
While we strongly encourage students to obtain work experience and
further their job skills, the Career Center also encourages guidelines
which recommend students do not work beyond a maximum number of hours
which might adversely affect their scholastic achievements.
We believe, along with many others, that it is important to fully
recognize our student employees as the important human resource to
the UCSC campus that they are, just as we do for our regular staff
and faculty. This exceptional performance award program is an excellent
mechanism for acknowledging outstanding student employee service.
As stated earlier, such commendations will give an additional competitive
advantage to our qualified students as they search for professional
opportunities outside the university. Their career seeking repertoire
will include a university degree, valuable work experience, and a
special acknowledgment by the university of their special services
and contributions.
CRITERIA OF PERFORMANCE
Students who have made outstanding contributions to the achievement
of the unit's goals and fulfillment of its mission.
- The student employee must be in good academic standing. Academic
status will be verified upon receipt of unit nomination(s).
- Student employees exhibiting a high skill-level for their position(s).
This would apply to any level of student employment, highly skilled
programmer, manual labor positions, or the innovative file clerk.
- Students who demonstrate a willingness and an ability to seek
innovative solutions to problems and who participate in streamlining
activities relevant to their positions.
- Students who exhibit superior ability to work effectively with
staff and faculty, and are seen as exceptional team players.
- Students who have served as positive role models. For example,
those students that demonstrate exemplary interpersonal skills
and who are consistently dependable, punctual and self-motivated.
AWARD CEREMONY
The Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor of Student Affairs, supervisors,
and other guests will be invited to attend the two-hour reception
and an award presentation ceremony. One hour will be devoted to
enjoy food and social interaction between student employees and
campus supervisors. The Chancellor and the Student Vice Chancellor
will then offer their congratulations to all student award recipients.
Main SERAP Information Page
2007 Details and
Recipient List
2006 Details and Recipient
List
2005 Details and Recipient
List
2004 Details and Recipient
List
2003 Details
and Recipient List
2002 Details
and Recipient List
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