Work+
For Professional Staff
You can provide an incredible opportunity for students who are working while going to school by helping them learn and practice critical skill sets and preparing them for their next steps after ASU.
How It Works
Ensuring students’ work experiences are dynamic professional development opportunities requires the intentional support and structure provided by Work+.
As a supervisor in the Work+ model, you expand your role to serve as a mentor to working learners, to better support their professional and personal goals, and prepare them for their entry into the workforce after graduation. You will help them acquire essential competencies and gain the kind of occupational proficiency often possessed by people who are thriving in their careers. Actively participating in Work+ will empower students to engage meaningfully with their work, their professional story, and their role and place in the world.
As a supervisor and mentor, you play a critical role in assisting students in understanding how their work can connect to their long-term career goals.
Take an expanded role supporting working learners through the personalization of an enhanced working experience.
Meet regularly with working learners, identify opportunities for growth and encourage their professional goals.
Supervisor Testimonial Video
Work+ Teams
Join our growing list of departments who are seeing the value Work+ brings to students and staff. You can successfully participate in a life-transformative education that develops a working learner’s sense of identity, agency, and purpose.
| Department | Units |
|---|---|
| University College | Student Success Center |
| University Academic Success Programs | |
| LEAD | |
| American Indian Student Support Services | |
| ASU@Lake Havasu |
How to participate
Join Work+
More and more units are taking part in Work+. They see the opportunity to fundamentally reshape student employment as a vehicle for personal and professional growth.
Our team supports you in redesigning your student jobs in alignment with Work+, invests in your mentoring skills, and guides you in better integrating work and learning.
Interested?
As I have become more and more involved, it’s gotten me conversing with students in just a totally new way. And so it has totally transformed everything. Just being part of the program for three months has completely changed my outlook on so many things.
Dr. Jeanette Nangreave
Assistant Research Professional, ASU@Lake Havasu
Many of the supervisors, this is their first supervisory role. It moves you from, “I need to manage this work,” to, “how do I help the student become successful?”
Sukhwant Jhaj
Dean, University College
I love that Work+ gives us a blueprint for how to support them professionally with their future career goals.
Dr. Kevin Correa
Director, Student Success Center, Arizona State University
You never know what nugget or what seed you’re going to plant with the students that they’ll take with them for the rest of their lives and incorporate into their future jobs, and maybe share that knowledge with a mentee that they may have some day.
Robin Keagle
Coordinator Senior, University Academic Support Services, Arizona State University
FAQ
Zero faculty. Your unit will need:
- Work+ Liaison to partner with the Work+ Program Office
- Leadership buy-in and supervisor participation
All student employees in your unit will participate in the Work+.
Units opt-in to the program and their student employees become part of the Work+.
For your unit? Nothing. This is a university-sponsored program.
All student employees will be participating