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The Red and Black • Tuesday, May 8. 1990 • 3
Wage helps students in work-study program
Hours required to earn $90/wk
@ $4.25/hr.
after 4/1/91
@ $3.80/hr.
after 4/1/90
@ $3.35/hr.
before 4/1/90
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
College work-study participants
at the University won't have to
work as many hours to earn their
financial aid awards now that the
minimum wage rate is $3.80 an
hour.
Students’ willingness to take out
educational loans instead of partic
ipating in the CWS program
should also decline, especially next
April, when the rate increases to
$4.25 an hour, said Gary Lewis,
former associate director of Stu
dent Financial Aid.
“We’re going to have more stu
dents who’re going to want work-
study,” he said. “It’s going to be
come more attractive. The students
weren’t matching their awards.”
Under the CWS program, stu
dents are awarded an earnings
limit for each quarter, which this
year ranged from $450 to $900.
They can’t use the award to defer
fees, which must be paid at the be
ginning of each quarter.
CWS guarantees them a campus
job for the school year at minimum
wage so they can earn their
awards.
• Students awarded the full $900
per quarter had to work nearly 27
hours a week to earn their awards
at the old rate of $3.35 an hour.
The new rate allows students to
work less than 24 hours a week to
earn the maximum $900 each
quarter.
Rejoicing’
Berlethia Pitts, a junior public
relations major who has worked in
the periodicals section of the main
library for 2 1/2 years, was
awarded the full $900 for this year
and the next. When she heard
about the increase, she said she
jumped for joy.
"I was rejoicing,” she said. “This
was a raise for me.”
Pitts said she always made less
than $90 a week before the hike be
cause of a departmental rule that
limits the number of hours CWS
students can work to 25 a week.
She entertained the notion that
Student Financial Aid could give
her the rest of her award in cash.
“I was hoping they could give me
the rest in some physical way/’ she
said. “But they said, ‘No, that’s not
possible.’ And I was left thinking,
'So why did you bother to write it
down here?’
Lewis said the University has
traditionally paid CWS students
the minimum wage, and that prob
ably won’t change now that the
minimum wage has become more
competitive.
"You don’t want a situation
where your students are making
more than the staff,” he said.
When the minimum wage rises
to $4.25 in 1991, the maximum
CWS award will remain at $900.
Students will have to work an av
erage of 21 hours a week to earn
their awards.
Although students earn more
per hour with the new wage, Lewis
said work-study awards aren’t
based on how much money stu
dents wont to earn.
Work study v. loans
Instead, the awards set limits on
how much students can make all
year and are based strictly on indi
vidual need.
Lewis said that when he came to
the University in 1982, more stu
dents preferred CWS to loans.
But because financial aid appli
cations allow students a choice be
tween the two, many have opted
for loans so they can have outside
jobs and make more money.
“We do need to get back to
meeting their needs with grants
and work,” he said. “It’s getting
dangerous. Students borrow too
much money.”
Lewis said hiring CWS students
is attractive to campus employers
because the employers pay only 10
percent of students’ wages.
For smaller departments, the
wage increase isn’t a problem, and
he said the same goes for the Uni
versity, which pays 20 percent of
CWS wages. The federal govern
ment pays the rest.
Lewis said the University won’t
take advantage of the law’s
training wage provision, which al
lows some employers to pay under-
20-year-olds hired after April 1,
1990, the old rate of $3.35 an hour
for 90 days.
Florence King, main library
CWS coordinator, said the rate
hike may generate a short-term re
newal of interest — a couple of
years’ worth.
Short-term interest
But after that, she’s not as posi
tive because the wage hike is
across-the-board in the United
States, and not just for the CWS
program.
King said student^ often quit
CWS or never show up for the first
day because they know they can
make more money waiting tables
and collecting tips, for example.
She said that in the past, the
program contained a rule forbid
ding CWS participants from taking
any other on-campus employment.
They risked losing their CWS jobs
if they were caught.
King said this didn’t mean stu
dents couldn’t take other jobs off-
campus because the University
had no way of monitoring off-
campus employers to find CWS
students moonlighting.
But when William Prokasy, vice
president for Academic Affairs,
registers the budget, the library
puts in a CWS request.
‘You don’t want a
situation where your
students are making
more than the staff. We
do need to get back to
meeting their needs
with grants and work.’
— Gary Lewis
former assoc.director,
Student Financial Aid
“Every year we tell them how
many students we need, knowing
full well we won’t even get half of
them,” she said. “Sometimes they
don’t show up because of sched
uling problems, and they choose
not to work.”
She said that four to five years
ago, the maximum hours a CWS
student could work stood at 20.
“I think there was just such a
hue and cry from students,” King
said. ‘They weren’t making that
money.
“When that happens, you're in
the hole,” she said. “That money
has to come from somewhere.”
Gary Lewis is now director of the
financial aid office at Colorado
Mountain College in Glenwood
Springs, Colo.
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