“To excel in the liberal arts”
Student Employment at St. Olaf College is a fundamental component of our students’ liberal arts education. On-campus work offers students opportunities to cultivate breadth and depth in the workplace skills, knowledge and capacities that help students flourish in their chosen vocation.
“To examine faith and values”
The liberal arts involve underlying claims about what is ultimately meaningful and worthwhile. In our Student Employment Program, we encourage students to reflect on ethical decision-making, service and stewardship, self-reflection and growth, and aligning career and professional choice with values.
“To explore meaningful vocation”
At St. Olaf College, vocation is who you are called to be and what you are called to do across all parts of your life, including your professional work. Student employment at St. Olaf College is not just a way to earn money, it is an opportunity to live out one’s vocation and to integrate faith and values into one’s everyday work.
“To be an inclusive community”
Excellence in the liberal arts is possible only when people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas come together in the spirit of mutual respect and inclusion. At St. Olaf College, student employment is understood as a form of community engagement and community belonging.
“To be a globally engaged community”
Student employment at St. Olaf College brings students into contact with people from different backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives. Working on campus helps students to develop cross-cultural awareness. Our campus employment opportunities help students to cultivate transferable skills for a globalized world like communication, problem-solving, and adaptability.
“To be nourished by the Lutheran tradition”
All these commitments are reinforced by a Lutheran understanding that God’s love calls us to meet the world in generosity and service. We hear in this a summons to use the gifts of reason, creativity, and empathy to their fullest; to live in community with all people; to steward carefully the resources on which we depend; and to respond in good will to the needs of neighbors and the planet.