Departments recognize student employees and teams
Two CSB/SJU students and one team won student employee and student team of the 2021-2022 academic school year. Each year, CSB and SJU departments nominate student employees or teams who display exceptional work during their on-campus employment.
With the academic year ending, CSB/SJU departments and community service agencies were given the opportunity to recognize exceptional student employees and teams.
The student employee of the year nominees had to be undergraduate or graduate students under the student employment program.
Departments nominated students with up to two pages of the student’s accomplishments and reasoning for the recognition. The nominees were evaluated on the eight National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Core Competencies, which include career and self-development, communication, critical thinking, equity and inclusion, leadership, professionalism, teamwork and technology.
There were six CSB students and three SJU students student employee of the year nominees and seven student teams of the year nominees.
CSB senior Ruthie Schutz, SJU sophomore Landon Peterson and the Institute for Women’s Leadership won the student employee and team of the year award.
Schutz said that her experience working for CSB Institutional Advancement helped her build professional skills necessary for her post-college life.
“[My job] has helped me become very motivated in completing projects. Time management is a huge piece, especially with school,” Schutz said.
Schutz said that time management was an especially important skill for the “busy Bennie” attitude many CSB students have.
“It does embody a CSB student to be working on campus,” Schutz said. “We need people in a community to do their part to make it function as a whole.”
Peterson said that the student employment experience has helped him develop relationships with his coworkers and employers.
“Student employment has been huge for me. I’ve worked three jobs in two years, and it’s really been a window of opportunity for me to get to know people and really develop good relationships not only between people at the school but also faculty members or bosses,” Peterson said.
Along with being undergraduate or graduate students employed through the student employment program, team nominees were evaluated on how well they worked on a common project, service or goal.
According to IWL student director and junior Julia Geller, commitment to the CSB/SJU community, diversity and rights of both women and men on campus are aspects of the IWL’s mission.
“We want Bennies and Johnnies to be passionate about these things and work together,” Geller said. “We don’t just support Bennies. We really encourage Johnnies to attend our events.”
Student employment has given students real life opportunities to develop professional skills.
“I’ve taken different experiences and skills out of [each position],” Peterson said. “I’m really fortunate to have been set up in really good student employment positions.”
