A: CTL is a strong advocate for students-as-partners particularly where student learning experiences are being surfaced, studied, and designed. Not only can a student provide valuable work effort to an ongoing research project, but student research assistants often share insightful and different perspectives on higher education pedagogy. Moreover, employing a student research assistant provides that student with valuable and applied learning as part of their undergraduate career.
CTL currently hosts a team of undergraduate research assistants who provide support to numerous functions within our center. As such, CTL can provide documentation for this process, including example job descriptions, job recruitment process, interview questions, and work-study website navigation. In exceptional cases where an individual Fellow feels like they lack the HR support to directly hire an undergraduate through their department, CTL may support directly hiring a student worker who then is directly assigned to the Fellow’s project.