全国学生就业周:庆祝梅多斯的学生工作者

Meadows wouldn’t be the same without our many dedicated student employees who help keep the school running smoothly on a daily basis. 为了纪念全国学生就业周, we’re taking behind-the-scenes look at what some of our student workers handle on a regular basis for the recruitment team, 票务办公室, 和更多的. Explore the responsibilities and accomplishments of our valued student workers below.

招聘

One of the most visible groups of student workers at SMU Meadows is the 梅多斯入学大使. These students help give tours and talk about Meadows academic programs, 机会, 以及访问未来学生及其家庭的结果, 高中小组, 教育工作者和大学辅导员, 和更多的. 他们代表梅多斯参加大学博览会和学生座谈会, as well as handle administrative work in the Meadows Admission office and personal outreach to individual students.

威尔·艾默特(声音?, ’24), one of Meadows’ Lead Ambassadors who has been a member of the team since his sophomore year, has contributed to countless events and designed various projects for the team, 包括目前在招生办公室播放的幻灯片. 继说, “I love how the Meadows community feels like a family with supportive faculty and the feeling of not being just another student, 而是那个家庭的一员.”

经常, admitted students talk about the personal connection to the people in Meadows that convinced them to choose to attend SMU. 梅多斯入学大使 like Emmert help cultivate those connections and do a lot of work to help support the operation of recruitment events, 以及梅多斯的整体文化和招生情况.

票务

比如招生办公室, the Meadows Box Office in many ways provides a first impression to students and families of SMU and to patrons in the community. 由于售票处位于市中心, student workers often greet visiting students and their families and show them how to get around Owen 艺术s Center. The Box Office student workers provide the front of house staffing for all Meadows events, 不管他们是否有票, 每年通常会安排200多场活动. 仅在四月份, student workers will cover over 25 events and have as many as three performances in a single day!

像索菲亚·哈里斯(跳舞)这样的学生工作者, ’25) says that the staffing a show includes a variety of responsibilities like ushering, 取票, 奔跑将召唤, 票房收入, 在门口卖票, and even says that experienced workers will also work with the stage manager of the event to ensure it runs smoothly.

在白天, the Meadows Box Office staff serves not only as ambassadors but also as marketers. Student workers populate community calendars across the Metroplex with our events as well as hanging posters and distributing flyers all over campus. 因为没有两天是相同的, 每个机会都是学习的机会, students are well-trained in customer service and develop great skills in interacting with the public.

多样性、公平和包容(dei)

When Diversity Officer Karen Thomas was in need of a student worker to assist in her duties and tap into students to assess their needs, she was recommended graduate percussionist student Torrance Buntyn Jr (音乐, 来帮忙. According to Thomas, he has exceeded expectations and has been a great asset to the program. 在一起, they organized a meet-and-greet last spring for Black faculty and students, where Buntyn provided an ice-breaker exercise for the cross-discipline gathering, 让参与者放松. The evening resulted in flowing conversation and much needed connections.

Buntyn was also instrumental in helping Thomas plan Meadows’ very first “在一起 We Dine program” last fall. 这个项目, 由新大校友和梅多斯牧场董事会成员里奇·巴特勒牧师发起, allows folks to have safe conversations about race and other issues while eating a shared meal. The event was paired to a current art exhibit by 广告 Professor Willie Baronet called 我们都无家可归. 这学期, Buntyn is contributing to the DEI program by working on creating mini profiles of faculty, 员工和学生代表了梅多斯丰富的结构, 哪些将很快推出.

“The work he has done will continue to provide a roadmap for future events,” says Thomas.

院长办公室

Student workers assigned to the Dean’s Office are quite literally the first face Meadows visitors are greeted with when entering the school. They are stationed outside of the Dean’s Office in the Owen 艺术s Center, 他们的任务包括接待院长办公室的访客, 通过上门或打电话到办公室回答一般问题, 以及整理和分发院长办公室收到的邮件. They also support the Dean’s assistant with projects related to monthly mailings and preparations for larger events.

这两位现在是学生工人, 西莉亚·汉宁(舞蹈), 1924年)和威尔·施密特(Will Schmitt)(戏剧家), '26), also support Meadows development office with donor relations needs such as preparing mailings, 手写感谢信, and deliveries across campus in addition to their duties to the main Dean’s Office.

市场营销

就连梅多斯的营销团队也有一名学生工! 团队的现任员工, 研究生Angela Molinero (MADI), ’25), 是否有市场协调员的工作经验, and says that working for the Marketing team “offers 机会 to be creative, 创新并对人们的认知产生重大影响.”

利用她以前获得的技能, Molinero helps with digital projects like editing Meadows-related website pages and the layout design of the weekly newsletter, “本周在梅多斯.” She has also recently had the opportunity to spend time assisting with the complete redesign of SMU Data 艺术s website through a Human Centered 设计 (HCD) framework. 作为一名设计与创新专业的研究生, Molinero’s HCD focus helps her come up with new ideas and problem solving in a discerning way by prioritizing the user’s experience.

感谢所有梅多斯的学生工作者, 能源, 还有你定期为学校贡献的辛勤工作!