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Work-study community service obviously benefits the agencies it serves and pleases Harvard administrators, but are the rewards great enough to make a less convenient, more time-consuming job worth it to the students themselves? "I think the ones that go off-campus have no desire to work in an office, and want to do more with their work-study," says Baldwin. "They choose it because that is what they want to do. Working on-campus, one may take an office job just to earn the money...
...some colleges, no off-campus work-study is offered at all. At MIT, there simply are not enough funds to support off-campus work. "We absorb the work-study funds and it helps us with financial aid," says MIT director of student employment Jane Smith. MIT students do community service through other jobs and volunteer work, but work-study remains strictly on-campus...
Nearby Lesley College normally has off-campus opportunities, but this year has restricted its work-study program to on-campus work. "It is an institutional policy," says Donna Getz, assistant director of student employment. "We thought it was in the best interests of the students and the school...
...work-study students work in the Boston community. "The preference is to work on campus," says assistant director of student employment Deborah Jackson. She says that students didn't want lose time commuting, and the student employment office actually had to encourage and force work-study students to work off-campus because all on-campus jobs were full...
Boston University was once cited as an institution with a model off-campus program, and still works actively in community service. Still, about 90 percent of their work-study students work on-campus...