A group of Northwestern students participating in a summer work program are alleging that they are underpaid and overworked and are circulating a petition demanding changes from the university.
The university’s conference assistant program employs 20 mostly low-income students of color, the students said. It supports the university’s summertime events, including conferences and high school programs. In exchange for working approximately 20 hours a week, the assistants receive free housing, dining hall access and a stipend of $1,650.
“There are definitely take-aways that have informed how we change our own protocols, when hiring students, sort of the checks and the double checks. … I think that’s fueled an understandable amount of frustration from the students,” Gonzalez told the Tribune., calls on the school to pay conference assistants an hourly wage of $19.
Bruno said she applied for the job in order to seek alternative housing due to domestic violence in her household. She felt that thewas “pretty ambiguous,” leading many of her fellow conference assistants to feel “betrayed and deceived” when the summer began. “Even if we don’t get a call, we’re walking all around campus alone at night and having experienced sexual assault in the past and knowing that I’m not the only who has,” Bruno said. “I find the university forcing us to do these types of shifts and then not even considering it active work to be extremely insensitive.”
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