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Each fall, first-year women participate in small group workshops that are designed to facilitate discussions about issues of safety and acquaintance rape as they exist on the campus. One of the special features of the program is its student-to-student approach; trained upper-class student volunteers help to choose the content and format of the program and are entirely responsible for leading the small group discussions.
Senior Interns are current HWS seniors who serve as one-year members of the Admissions staff. Primary responsibilities include interviewing, staffing local college nights, open houses, and information sessions. Interns help to shape the incoming classes at HWS by supporting significant admission & recruiting initiatives and serving in a very visible role in relation to campus visitors.
Contact: Peter Hagan, Admissions
America Counts coordinators are veteran tutors who lead their peer tutors during session. Coordinators facilitate the sessions with the tutors and the Geneva Middle School students. Coordinators should feel confident in their math skills and be able to work well with peer tutors, students in the program, and Middle School staff.
Contact: Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning (CCESL)
Phone: (315) 781-3825
Applications: America Reads Application
America Reads Coordinators are veteran tutors who lead their peer tutors during sessions. Coordinators create and facilitate literacy activities for tutor/student pairings, assist in classroom management, and manage program partner relationships as well as bi-weekly timesheets. Coordinators have a sincere interest in helping local children improve reading skills, and an ability to lead their peers effectively. Full position description and application are available on CCESL's website.
Contact: Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning (CCESL)
Phone: (315) 781-3825
Applications: America Reads Page
The Bonner Leader Program is designed to heighten the overall education students and members receive by asking them to engage in ongoing service work and helping them develop the experience, skills, knowledge and values necessary to make that work meaningful and lasting. At Hobart and William Smith, the "Bonners" are the drivers for many of the new initiatives of the CCESL, devoting 6 to 10 hours a week in organizing students and working with the community in the areas of Literacy, Service-Learning, Hobart and William Smith Athletes for Geneva's Youth, Civic Engagement and Community Activism and "What Do You Stand For?" Each receives a stipend and well as extensive leadership training and networking opportunities. If they complete 300 hours and choose to pursue it, they may also receive a $1,000 AmeriCorps Award.
Contact: Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning (CCESL)
Phone: (315) 781-3825
Tutors typically work with struggling students from specific courses or areas of study. They may work with individual students or small groups on a semester-by-semester basis. Contact the Center for Teaching and Learning or apply online.
Phone: (315) 781-3351
E-mail: ctl@hws.edu
The Common Ground program is required for all new first year students at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Administrators and faculty members serve as Instructors for small sections of Common Ground. Sharing in the facilitation role are upper-class HWS students who serve as Peer Mentors for the program. Peer Mentors are trained facilitators who help lead this six week course in the fall semester. Peer Mentors apply for the role in the spring, and mentors are selected based on their character and interest in assisting new students in becoming oriented to HWS. Peer mentors share their own experiences at HWS and assist new first years in learning the culture of HWS and the aspects of life at the Colleges that will make their time at HWS meaningful.
Contact: Dean Kaenzig at William Smith Dean's Office
Phone: (315) 781-3467
Community Based Research (CBR) projects entail a semester long commitment devoted to the exploration of a vital community issue. Students with exceptional initiative work collaboratively with a community partner and faculty sponsor. Responsibilities vary based upon the specific details within the proposal and will likely include independent research, weekly check-ins with community partner and faculty sponsor, and a concluding presentation or project. CBR projects can count towards a student's major (see course requirements) or as Geneva Collaborative Internship (GCIP 401).
Contact: Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning (CCESL)
Phone: (315) 781-3825
Students have federal work study or Colleges work study as part of their financial aid package. Many departments offer on campus opportunities for employment. Position descriptions and related information are available on the Financial Aid website.
Contact: Sean View, Office of Financial Aid
Phone: (315) 781-3155
Jobs: http://www.hws.edu/offices/finaid/jobs.aspx
Voting members are elected from and by their residences and are responsible for the allocation of student funds to finance organizations, activities and projects that benefit Hobart College.
Contact: Hobart Dean's Office, Smith Hall, First Floor
Phone: (315) 781-3300
The House Manager(s) will work with the program to enact the theme of the house and ensure the residents fulfill all of the required activities. The House Manager(s) will live in their theme house for the full academic year.
Contact: Dave Reiner, Residential Education.
Phone: (315) 781-3880
The Jumpstart team leader position is open to Jumpstart Corps members and alumni who have completed at least one year of service. In some cases, it is also open to undergraduate or graduate students who have early childhood education backgrounds and can serve in a team management role. The team leader manages a team of Corps members to provide educational activities to young children and families. Responsibilities include planning and implementing effective Jumpstart sessions, facilitating team meetings, and coaching Corps members to use developmentally appropriate practices with young children. The team leader plays a variety of roles, including coach, trainer, observer, administrator, and manager, and is essential to making Jumpstart a high quality program.
Contact: Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning (CCESL)
Phone: (315) 781-3825
Website: JStart.org
The Volunteer Coordinator's main role is to recruit student and community volunteers to aid in the outreach efforts of the Jumpstart Geneva program. In addition to supporting the work of college students as AmeriCorps members, Jumpstart also engages a variety of community members as volunteers who contribute their time and talent to enhance Jumpstart's service to our partner early childhood centers and the community at large. To implement and manage our volunteer initiatives, Jumpstart will utilize a Volunteer Coordinator. The Volunteer Coordinator's main role is to recruit, train, and manage volunteers for various Jumpstart service projects that address specific program and community needs. The volunteers should be able to participate in a range of volunteer service projects.
Contact: Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning (CCESL)
Phone: (315) 781-3825
Website: JStart.org
The L2L leadership program utilizes the existing strong student to student connections at WS as the foundation for its peer mentoring program. The purpose of the program is to provide students with opportunities to improve leadership skills by observing others in leadership roles and by acting as role models for others.
Contact: Dean Gunter, William Smith Dean's Office
Phone: (315) 781-3467
Orientation Leaders will help manage the Orientation Mentors; assist with all orientation events by leading discussion groups with incoming students and family members; assist in the preparation of orientation activities and materials; acquaint new students with campus services and building locations; assist with the Matriculation process; provide assistance to help direct new students to a variety of activities; and discuss sensitive issues.
Contact: Robert Pool at Student Activities
Phone: (315) 781-3513
Orientation Mentors will facilitate small group discussions and activities with new students, provide assistance for new students in a variety of activities; setup, execute, breakdown and participate in all orientation events; acquaint new students with campus services and building locations; assist with new student move-in process; and discuss sensitive issues.
Contact: Robert Pool at Student Activities
Phone: (315) 781-3513
Peers Educating Peers are student mentors who work with the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Programs to facilitate interactive programming with HWS students. The peer educators are responsible for presenting the actual social norms to the HWS community. They produce and disseminate information on how to reduce at-risk behaviors associated with health, wellness and alcohol. The non-judgmental, harm reduction approach of the facilitators provides a forum to discuss responsible decision making and choices around day to day living, health, wellness and alcohol consumption. The student peers work in pairs and each present four to eight campus-wide presentations with likely audiences within the residence halls, theme houses, athletes, and student organizations on campus.
Contact: Sarah Entenmann, Alcohol and Other Drug Programs
Phone: (315) 781-3478
Resident Assistants (RAs) are student leaders and paid employees of the Office of Residential Education at Hobart and William Smith. An RA is assigned to each residential area and is responsible for creating a sense of community in the residence hall. In developing such a community, they often address issues of personal counseling, advising, policy enforcement, programming (personal growth, community development, integrating living and learning, and social), etc.
Contact Residential Education or apply.
Phone: (315) 781-3880
The Charter Class established the big sister/little sister program in 1910 and with it the tradition of William Smith women reaching out and supporting one another.
That tradition is continued today by a number of student organizations that help women make William Smith a vibrant and caring community.
Contact: William Smith Dean's Office, Smith Hall, First Floor
Phone: (315) 781-3467
Founded in 1979, the Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) is comprised of student-athletes from each of the 11 College varsity teams. Council members are selected by their respective head coach and the director of athletics.
Teaching Fellows staff departmental study spaces, where they cultivate student understanding of subject-specific discourse and inquiry, model out-of-class engagement and help direct learning. Teaching Fellows are trained to facilitate learning by directing conversation, posing challenging questions, suggesting effective study strategies, providing feedback and directions to additional resources.
Phone: (315) 781-3351
E-mail: ctl@hws.edu
See the program description and application (PDF) to apply.
All students of William Smith are members of Congress, which works to represent and promote women's interests and activities on campus. Every woman is encouraged to attend weekly meeting, which provide an opportunity for women from all classes and interest groups to gather and to discuss and act upon campus issues which they find important. Voting members are elected from and by their residences and are responsible for the allocation of student funds to finance organizations, activities and projects that benefit William Smith students.
Writing Colleagues are students that lend support and act as a sounding board for other student writers. They spend a semester attached to a course, often a First Year Seminar, working with each individual student in the course. Writing Colleagues must go through an application process, and then take the Writing Colleague Seminar through Writing and Rhetoric, where they study how to provide writing assistance and diagnose papers, as well as read and write and discuss the art of rhetoric.
Email: Heidi Beach, Writing Colleague Coordinator
Phone: (315) 781-3807
