{"id":29436,"date":"2018-06-13T10:09:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T14:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/?page_id=29436"},"modified":"2024-04-23T09:38:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T13:38:24","slug":"federal-work-study","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/federal-work-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Work Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Work-Study is a program that promotes access to employment for students who demonstrate financial need.\u00a0 Available funds are provided by a federal allocation and a University matching contribution.\u00a0 Recipients are selected by the Graduate School Financial Aid Office and must meet federal need and other criteria.\u00a0 <i>Student income verification is required for all GRS students wishing to be considered for work-study.<\/i><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Application Deadlines<\/strong><\/h3>\n<table style=\"border: 0px solid #000000;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Academic Year<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>June 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Summer<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>March 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>To receive an application and ask\u00a0questions regarding the program, please contact:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graduate School Financial Aid Office<\/strong><br \/>\n705 Commonwealth Avenue<br \/>\nBoston, MA 02215<br \/>\nPhone: 617-353-2696<br \/>\nE-mail: <a href=\"mailto:grsaid@bu.edu\">grsaid@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After being awarded\u00a0and accepting the award with the Graduate Financial Aid Office, information about available jobs in various University departments, as well as with off-campus nonprofit agencies, can be found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/seo\/students\/work-study\/finding-fws\/\">Work Study Office<\/a>. \u00a0Graduate Work-Study students may be paid either weekly at established hourly rates or weekly at a fixed amount, depending on the nature of the job.\u00a0 Job assignments, which average 10\u201312 hours per week, are coordinated with your class schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Work-Study is a program that promotes access to employment for students who demonstrate financial need.\u00a0 Available funds are provided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10199,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79239,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29436\/revisions\/79239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}