Student Workers
Are you a WOU student interested in being a student worker for the WOU Mathematics Department?
Paper Graders
- The Mathematics Department frequently hires student workers to help with grading papers fall, winter and spring terms.
- Grades of at least a B in your mathematics courses are required.
- You must have taken mathematics courses beyond the course you wish to grade for to qualify as a grader. Please ask at the Mathematics Department if you are not sure.
- Contact Kendall Rosales, rosalesk@wou.edu, with questions
Math Center Tutors
- The Mathematics Department hires student workers each term to tutor math in the Math Center. The Math Center tutors tutor 100 and 200 level math courses.
- Grades of at least a B in your mathematics courses are required.
- You must have taken mathematics courses beyond most of the courses we tutor to qualify as a tutor. Please ask at the Mathematics Department if you are not sure.
- Contact Kendall Rosales, rosalesk@wou.edu, with questions
Application Process
- You must be at least a half-time (6 credits or more) WOU student to be a WOU Mathematics Department student worker.
- We hire both undergraduate and graduate students.
- For the full WOU Student worker employment policy, see wou.edu/hr/student-employment-policy/.
- Math student workers are paid using the standard, on campus, student wage rate.
- If you are interested in working as a WOU Mathematics Department student worker, please fill out our online application [please note that you must be logged into Portal to fill this out]:
Math Student Worker Application
Application Questions
Here are the list of questions on the application form, they are listed here for your reference
Personal information
- Name
- Pronouns
- Languages you are comfortable with
- WOU V#
- Phone number
- WOU major
- WOU minor (if you have one)
- Year in school
- Expected graduation term
- College Mathematics GPA (include dual credit)
- Overall College GPA
- Do you have work study? (yes or no)
Position(s) you are applying for (can choose one or both)
- Paper grader
- Math Center tutor
Term(s) you would like to work
- Academic year(s) you would like to work
Background
- Briefly describe your reason for wanting to work as a paper grader and/or a Math Center tutor. Please specify which.
- Describe your past experience(s) grading papers, tutoring and/or mentoring others in math.
References (at least one)
- Please list any WOU Math professors that can provide a reference for you.
- Please list any WOU (non-math) professors or other WOU personnel that can provide a reference for you (suggested only if you don’t have a WOU math professor reference already)
- Please provide contact information (name and email) for a recent non-WOU mathematics instructor that can provide a reference for you (required only if no WOU Math professor listed in previous question)
- Reference letter – if you already have a non-WOU grading and/or tutoring letter of reference, you may attach it to the form
