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 The Summer Bridge Program is limited to a select group of students each year. Since 1975, the CSP Bridge Program has offered intensive academic preparation, highly individualized academic advising and the personal attention of faculty in an intensive, yet nurturing environment during the summer. Bridge Program students have an excellent opportunity to strengthen their academic skills, develop a peer support network and to familiarize themselves with the campus and its resources. Bridge Program students are typically enrolled in an English course, a mathematics course, a freshman seminar and receive essential instruction about the UM computing environment. These courses are credit-bearing, academically rigorous courses and become part of the student's official University of Michigan transcript. Also, Bridge Program students are assigned an academic advisor who will serve as their permanent advisor providing guidance on course selection, career planning, and progress towards fulfilling degree requirements.
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2009 Summer Bridge Program (SBP) Course Assistant positions
Overview
A Summer Bridge Course Assistant (CA) position is a part-time, eight-week position within The Summer Bridge Program for undergraduate University of Michigan students.
For those CAs assigned to provide assistance in English, or in the Sweetland Writing Center (SWC) Practicum, the CA receives supervision from the individual Summer Bridge Program instructor teaching a section, or sections, of any of these courses, i.e., English 125 or SWC 100.
In Mathematics, within the Workshop setting, all CAs receive their supervision from the Summer Bridge Program (SBP) Coordinator of Mathematics. A Mathematics CA, just like his/her counterpart in English, is also assigned to an individual instructor of Mathematics 103 and receives additional supervision from the individual instructor of the section to which s/he has been assigned.
Responsibilities: Daytime and Evening
CAs work a total of 15 hours per week. A Course Assistant is expected to attend the class meetings of his/her assigned course as appropriate each week to better understand each assignment as well as the pedagogy of the course. Also, a CA is responsible for working with students in a workshop setting on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., or in the case of Mathematics, on Mondays and Wednesdays between 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.
- In English, or in the SWC Practicum, a Course Assistant (CA) is responsible for helping all of those students enrolled in her/his supervisory instructor’s class, or classes. A CA will serve as an intellectual role model for each student who receives academic support and is expected to provide advice for essays, analysis of texts and/or any other types of written work the instructor assigns.
- In Mathematics the CA will help students with math problems and math homework in the workshop setting based on the direction of the SBP Mathematics Coordinator. S/He will serve as an intellectual role model for each student who receives academic support and is expected to provide academic support for the mastery of all intermediate algebra problems, Gateway exam problems and mathematical concepts. A Course Assistant is also expected to attend the class meetings of his/her assigned course as appropriate each week to better understand the problems being assigned and the concepts covered during class time.
Supervision
Supervision is received from an SBP instructor, the Coordinator of Mathematics for the Summer Bridge Program (SBP) and the Coordinator of the Summer Bridge Program (SBP).
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Compensation
Compensation is $8.50 per hour. This position requires 10-15 hours per week from June 29, 2009 – August 14, 2009.
Deadline
Applications are due by May 1, 2009
Application Information
Interested Candidates should stop by the CSP office (1159 Angell Hall) and pick up and complete a Course Assistant application, read “CA Notes,” and provide contact information for three professional references to:
Dr. Ralph D. Story
Coordinator / 2009 Summer Bridge Program (SBP)
Associate Director
Comprehensive Studies Program
1159C Angell Hall
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
rdstory@umich.edu
Application
(download file)
