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Work Study Program

MVA believes the development of strong work ethics is an important part of the education of our students. We attempt to simulate a real work environment as our students learn the rewards and responsibilities of exchanging work for compensation. We also believe the work-study program helps students learn to develop skills in balancing life’s activities and scheduling their day to accomplish an ongoing and increasing variety of tasks.

The work of our students varies from cafeteria responsibilities, to campus maintenance, from dormitory cleaning duties to teachers’ “readers” that assist in grading papers. Some students are paid to assist the deans as “Resident Assistants” and others are compensated for their work on Student Association activities. Office
work to the manual work of raking leaves and shoveling snow are other examples of how our students learn the dignity of labor.
Students are usually assigned a variety of student jobs during their four years at MVA, which helps them to develop a range of skill sets and benefit from work experiences with several different work
supervisors.

We try to simulate the real world of work in our work environment by developing job descriptions for each student worker, establishing work objectives, and evaluating job performance several times during each school year. Dependability and punctuality are recorded and become part of the process of determining merited hourly wage increases (or decreases). In most cases our teachers, administrators, and support staff are also the work supervisors of our student workers. This dual role of our staff provides the opportunity for our students to develop their work skills under the supervision of a Christian adult.