By Sarah Carlson, Copy Editor

About 750 students work on campus, an average number during the fall and spring semesters, Suzanne Allmon, director of human resources, said in an e-mail. She said the number averages between 750 and 800 students, and the university’s budget cuts last semester have not greatly affected on-campus employment for students.

“To my knowledge, the primary student jobs affected by last year’s budget reallocations were in the departments that were eliminated-the Learning Enhancement Center and University Studies,” Allmon said. “I am unaware of student jobs affected in other areas.”

She said many on-campus jobs are still available for students looking for work.

“In fact, each year there are typically more student jobs open than there are students applying for those jobs,” Allmon said.

Jennifer Machin, graduate student in communication from Abilene, worked in the LEC for five years but was able to find several open on-campus jobs by the end of last semester.

She said she found a job at The ACU Foundation immediately after the LEC closed so she could work in the summer, and she was able to secure jobs as a tutor in the English Department and as an aide to an English professor. Her experience at the LEC and the timing of looking for a job made it easier for her to get one, she said.

“If I had tried to get one in the fall, that would have been a lot harder,” Machin said.

She said it can be easy to find a job on campus if students are willing to take anything available.

The trick is to talk to different departments and ask around because not every available job is posted through Human Resources, Allmon said. Those sent through Human Resources are posted on ACU’s Web site under “Employment” or on the bulletin board outside the Human Resources Office in the Administration Building, Room 213.

Off-campus jobs are also advertised through Human Resources, Allmon said, and students can find job advertisements in the Abilene Reporter-News or the Optimist as well.