Priority Registration for GCSU Student Workers!
Georgia College & State University Executive Cabinet and GCSU Registrar Kay Anderson
Student workers at Georgia College & State University often have to choose between taking classes needed for their majors and working their required hours as student employees. To ensure that our student workers are able to meet all of their academic needs and that our departments are able to run smoothly and efficiently, tell the GCSU administration that student workers need to be given priority status for class registration!
To:
Georgia College & State University Executive Cabinet and GCSU Registrar Kay Anderson
From:
[Your Name]
Georgia College’s student workers are essential to the proper running and functioning of the University environment. Yet, they are constantly faced with having to make a choice between meeting their degree requirements and working the right amount of hours needed to meet their basic needs. To ensure that our student workers don’t have to continue to face this choice, and that our University’s departments are able to run as smoothly and efficiently as possible, priority registration must be extended to all student workers at GCSU.
With ever-rising prices of rent, food and gas, the need for economic security motivates so many of GCSU’s students to take jobs on Campus. Additionally, the need for extra part-time labor motivates a number of GCSU’s departments to hire student workers. Yet, once employed, student workers face a consistent dilemma when class registration opens: having to make a choice between taking classes needed to fulfill their degree requirements and being able to work enough hours to pay for life’s necessities. Most classes are taught between 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Monday-Friday, while the majority of the University’s departments are open from 8:00 AM- 5:00 PM on the same days. This leaves our student workers struggling to be able to meet the massive financial burden that college entails, while taking advantage of the unique opportunities that GCSU’s Liberal Arts mission provides. Furthermore, this leaves departments struggling to ensure that all deadlines are kept and that work is done as quickly as possible to ensure students’ needs are met, as it leaves less time for student workers to accomplish the essential tasks they are assigned.
To ensure that our student workers are able to meet all of their needs, and that our departments are able to run smoothly and efficiently, all student workers need to be given priority status for class registration. This is a designation already given to Student Ambassadors, Athletes and Graduate Students, and must be extended to all student employees.
We, the undersigned, demand that priority registration be extended to all student workers at Georgia College & State University.