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| 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.
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