Federal Work StudyFederal Work Study

Off-Campus Opportunities

Charles W. Puls

Boston College

Off-Campus FWS

• Private, For-Profit Work Opportunities

• Non-Profit Work Opportunities

• Government Work Opportunities

• Mandated Work Opportunities– Community Service– Literacy Training

• Job Location and Development (JLD)

Initial Considerations

• The size of your FWS allocation.

• The goals of your institution.

• The size of your staff.• The size of the local

community.• The nature of your

student population.

Common Elements

1. Demonstrated Reliability

• Reliable Organization/Agency

• Professional Direction and Staff

• Adequate Supervision

• Work Opportunities Consistent with the FWS Program

2. Written Agreements• Hiring/Firing• Supervision• Liability• Employer of

Record/Payroll• Non-federal Share of

Wages• Social Security and

Worker’s Comp.• Billing

3. FWS Knowledge

Be sure

the agency is

informed

For-Profit Agencies

• Subsidy rate may not exceed 50%

• No more than 25% of FWS allocation

• Academic relevance

Non-Profit/Government Agencies

• Non-profit/tax exempt status

• 75% federal share– 90% federal share

option

• Proprietary schools may only use for community service

• Public interest

Not Public Interest If:

• primarily benefits members of an organization with membership limits

• partisan or nonpartisan political activity/ association with a faction in an election

• work for an elected official

• political aide for an elected official

• political affiliation is a hiring factor

• lobbying

Community Service

Beginning 2000-2001,

must spend 7% of FWS

allocation

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Community ServiceSpending

99-0000-01

Community Service Definition

• such fields as health care, child care, literacy training, education, welfare, social services, transportation, housing and neighborhood improvement, public safety, crime prevention and control, recreation, rural development, and community improvement;

• work in service opportunities or youth corps as defined in Section 101 of the National and Community Service Act of 1990, and service in the agencies, institutions, and activities designated in Section 124(a) of that Act;

• support for students with disabilities;

• and activities in which a FWS student serves as a mentor for such purposes as:

– tutoring

– supporting educational and recreational activities, and

– counseling, including career counseling

Literacy Training Definitions

Reading Tutor: Direct tutoring to pre-school/elementary school students.

Family Literacy Services to families with preschool age Project: children or children who are in

elementary school.

Family Literacy Reasonable flexibility for institutions to Activities: determine family literacy activities in a

family literacy project.

Literacy training

• 100% subsidy rate • Literacy Project

RequiredABCABC

Establishing a Community Service Program

1. Determine if any on-campus jobs meet the definition

2. Determine if any current off-campus jobs meet the definition

3. Locate other potential employers

* The Yellow Pages

* Chamber of Commerce

* Volunteer/Career Services Center

* Department of Education

* Commissions for National and Community Service

FWS Community ServiceDetermining Expenditure Goals

School’s Total FWS Allocation . . . $440,000

Required CS Expenditure (7%). . . $30,800

Gross wages needed to reach expenditure:

$30,800 75% = $41,066

TARGET!!

FWS Community ServiceDetermining Expenditure Goals

Target Expenditure = $41,066

Total FWS eligibility that should be awarded:

$41,066 80% = $51,322

Number of students that should be placed in CS jobs:

$51,322 $2200 = 24

FISAP Reporting

Part V, Section H: Community Service

#24. Number of students in community service requirement 4

#25. Federal share of community service earned compensation $6,000

#26. Non-federal share of community service earned compensation $2,000

Part V, Section I: Literacy Activities

#27. Number of students employed as FWS reading tutors of children 10

#28. Federal share of earned compensation for FWS reading tutors of children $1,000

#29. Total earned compensation for FWS reading tutors of children $1,000

Job Location and Development

JLD Background

Funding a JLD Program

• 80% Federal Funds*

• 20% Institutional Funds

*Allowable to use up to 10% or $50,000 (whichever is less) of total Federal Work

Study Allocation

Reporting JLDFISAP

Part V, Section D#15. Federal share of JLD program expenditures $48,000

Part V, Section G#20. Total expenditures for the Job Location and Development program $60,000

#21. Institutional expenditures for the JLD program $12,000

#22. Number of students for whom jobs were located or developed 95

#23. Total Earnings of the students in line 22 above $67,432

Promoting an Off-Campus Program

Students

– Develop materials to market community services directly to FWS eligible students

– Ask to present at various organization’s meetings

Employers

– Engage in networking activities

– Stay in touch

Both

– Hold and attend job fairs

– Host an “open house”

The Key to Success...

Maintain Good

Employer Relations!

– Make Initial Contact– Follow-up On Your Contacts!!!

– Learn employers’ needs, and

appeal to those needs

National Student Employment Association (NSEA)

andNortheastern Association of

Student Employment Administrators (NEASEA)

• nseastudemp.org (there’s no www)