If you have any questions, please contact us at hasc@niu.edu. Applications are accepted only through the web form below.
HASC Student Employee Application
Supplemental Instruction Leader
Supplemental Instruction (SI) is a peer-led academic assistance program designed to help students succeed in challenging courses. Supplemental instruction leaders (SILs) collaborate with faculty to create and deliver engaging group study sessions to aid students in understanding and retaining course material and enhancing their study skills.
Weekly requirements:
- Attend all lectures of assigned course (approx. 3 hours)
- Plan and create materials for interactive group review sessions (2-3 hours)
- Conduct weekly review sessions using the International SI model (3 hours)
- Hold office hours for individual student questions (1-2 hours)
- Communicate with students, faculty partner and supervisor through email and/or Blackboard (as needed)
Other requirements:
- Complete outreach activities (e.g., tabling, presentations) that promote the Huskie Academic Success Center (HASC) and its services
- Contribute to the production of promotional and resource materials
- Participate in the hiring of new staff
- Attend mandatory training (pre-semester and beyond as necessary)
Qualifications
Must have received a B or higher in the course to assist with the course and maintain an overall GPA of 3.0 or above.
Benefits: starting pay is $15/per hour
Tutor
Tutors assist students with understanding course concepts through assisting with homework, project and assignment fundamentals. Tutors also aid students in developing effective course-specific study strategies. Tutors work primarily in a one-on-one capacity but also in small groups with NIU students. Tutors will perform the following duties:
- Work as a peer tutor
- Complete outreach activities (e.g., tabling, presentations) that promote HASC and its services
- Contribute to the production of promotional and resource materials
- Participate in the hiring of new staff
Attend mandatory training (pre-semester and beyond as necessary)
Qualifications
Tutors must offer assistance with 10 courses, have received a B or higher in each course, maintain an overall GPA of 3.0 or above and be able to work a consistent schedule for at least 10 hours per week.
Benefits: starting pay is $15/per hour
Peer Academic Coach
Peer Academic Coaches (PACs) provide support to students in developing their skills with time management, task initiation, study strategies, note taking, test preparation and test taking. PACs work with students one-on-one and in small groups. PACs will perform the following duties:
- Conduct academic coaching appointments and group sessions
- Complete outreach activities (e.g. tabling, presentations) that promote HASC and its services
- Contribute to the production of promotional and resource materials
- Attend mandatory training (pre-semester and beyond as necessary)
Qualifications
PACs are required to maintain an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher and be able to work a consistent schedule of at least 10 hours per week throughout the semester.
Benefits: starting pay is $15/hour
Undergraduate Peer Writing Consultant
Undergraduate peer writing consultants support writers throughout the writing process for academic coursework and professional documents. Peer writing consultants will perform the following duties:
- Work as a writing consultant with students
- Complete outreach activities (e.g., tabling, presentations) that promote HASC, the Writing Center and their services
- Contribute to the production of promotional and resource materials
- Participate in the hiring of new staff
- Attend mandatory training (pre-semester and beyond as necessary)
Qualifications
An undergraduate peer writing consultant must be at least a second-year, full-time student in an NIU program who has successfully completed or met NIU's first-year composition requirements.
Undergraduate peer writing consultants must be willing to work a consistent schedule for at least 10 hours per week each semester.
Application Process
The Writing Center hiring process includes the following materials:
- College-level academic writing sample with sources (minimum 500 words) in a documentation style of your choice
- Explanation (approximately 250 words) of why you chose the sample as your writing submission, including the following information:
- What class/course is the assignment written for?
- What do you like about the submission?
- What would you change if you revised it?
- Explanation (no more than 250 words) of why you would like to be a peer writing consultant
- Interview (if selected)
Benefits: starting pay is $15/hour
Graduate Assistant Writing Consultant
A Writing Center graduate assistant writing consultant supports writers throughout the writing process for academic coursework and professional documents. Graduate assistant writing consultants will perform the following duties:
- Work as a writing consultant with students, faculty and staff
- Complete outreach activities (e.g., presentations, tabling) that promote HASC, the Writing Center and their services
- Create resources (e.g., handouts, documentation guides) for client and consultant use
- Contribute to the production of Writing Center promotional and assessment materials
- Participate in the hiring of new staff
- Attend mandatory training (pre-semester and beyond as necessary)
- Attend staff meetings
Continuing graduate assistants will perform the following additional duties:
- Develop and deliver focused writing and research presentations, workshops and webinars to classes and groups in the NIU community
- Participate in Writing Center mentoring by working with new consultants (after the first semester)
- Co-create training materials and help facilitate staff training
- Provide administrative and programmatic support for Writing Center operations as needed
Qualifications
Graduate assistant writing consultants must be enrolled full-time in an NIU graduate program or have an approved underload status. Depending on their appointment, they must be willing to work a consistent schedule for 10, 15 or 20 hours per week, each semester and work a closing shift one night each week.
Application Process
The application process consists of multiple parts:
- Application for Graduate Assistantship form (PDF)
- Academic writing sample with sources (minimum 1,500 words)
- Sample must be a clean copy of a paper submitted for a course
- Sample must include documentation (style of your choice)
- No group papers will be considered
- Explanation (250 words) of why you selected this writing sample, what you like about it and how you would revise it if given the opportunity.
- Explanation (250 words) of why you would like to be a graduate assistant writing consultant. Consider the following points:
- How does being a writing consultant complement your educational and/or professional goals?
- What will be your greatest challenge in this job?
- Interview, if invited