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...convenience of it," says director of student employment John Banfield, at the University of Pennsylvania. "It takes a while to get to work if you are working off-campus. People are worried about time for studies and other activities...
...Harvard, "probably less than a third" of work-study students work in off-campus jobs, according to Martha K. Baldwin, the off-campus work-study coordinator. Those that do work off-campus tend to work in hospitals and laboratories doing research rather than in agencies that directly aid the community, says Baldwin...
Although Baldwin says that there is no specific push for students to work in social service jobs, the Student Employment Office (SEO) here does much to make such jobs available. Students can get names of community service jobs from a bulletin board specifically for off-campus work-study, and SEO administrators say they are always pleased to have students work in the outside community...
...candidates may also find service opportunities through Harvard's Phillips Brooks House Association (PBH). The house is primarily a volunteer organization, but 25 work-study students are now employed in and through the house. They work as fundraisers, program directors, and staff assistants in the PBH building, or work off-campus in one of the 23 programs sponsored...
Gutwillig, who lives off-campus, says, "I knew from the start that it was either going to be the biggest thing in my life or it was not going to exist...