Scholarships, Internships, and Student Employment

• Amount: $1,000 – $2,000
• Number of awards: up to 2
• Deadline to apply: TBD for the AY 2025-26 school year
• The application for 2026-27 will open in late Winter or early Spring 2026

Scholarships at Western are now at a central application portal! Learn more at https://financialaid.wwu.edu/scholarships

Position last updated: August 2025

• Applications are Closed
• Number of positions: 2 or 3 Available
• Salaried GTA positions
  • full or partial tuition waiver, health benefits
  • Half-time (10 hr/wk);
• Non-salaried (hourly) GTA positions
  • no tuition waiver or health benefits for hourly positions
  • 5-9 hrs/wk
• Graduate Teaching Assistant Position Information and application (word document download)
• Duration: Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026, and/or Full 2025-26 Academic Year
• Deadline to apply: August 27, 2025

Post last updated: November 2025

We will begin accepting applications for 2026 UnConference Student Employees in August 2026.

• Application deadline: September 2026 or until the positions are filled.
  • Applications will start to be evaluated on a rolling basis beginning on Monday, September TBD, 2026.
• Position eligibility:
  • Undergraduates
  • Graduate students (hourly nonsalaried position)
• Number of positions: At least 6 available
• Work Study also available for eligible students: YES – please contact icds@wwu.edu directly to inquire
• Number of hours: 13 – 22 hours (includes training & orientation)
• Availability required for these key dates (please specify if available in–person, virtual, or either):
  • Saturday and Sunday of October 2026 corresponding to Fall Family Weekend
• This work opportunity is an ESE (Educational Student Employees) position covered by the Western Academic Workers United (WAWU) ♥ collective bargaining agreement ♥.
• Application review timeline:
  • Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting TBD, 2026.
  • Applications will be accepted until Friday, September TBD, 2026, or until positions are filled, whichever is earlier.
• Links to job postings with job requirements and full application instructions:
  • old Job description 2025 (PDF format)

Post last updated: September 2025

We are no longer taking applications for 2025 UnConference Student Staff

• Application deadline: September 23, 2025 or until the positions are filled.
  • Applications will start to be evaluated on a rolling basis beginning on Monday, September 08, 2025.
• Position eligibility:
  • Undergraduates
  • Graduate students (hourly nonsalaried position)
• Number of positions: At least 2 available
• Work Study also available for eligible students: YES – please contact icds@wwu.edu directly to inquire
• Number of hours: 15 – 24 hours (includes training & orientation)
• In-person availability required for these key dates:
  • Saturday and Sunday October 18-19, 2025
• Application review timeline:
  • Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting on September 08.
  • Applications will be accepted until Tuesday, September 23, 2025, or until positions are filled, whichever is earlier.
• Links to job postings with job requirements and full application instructions:
  • Job Description 2025 (PDF format)

Post last updated: November 2025

The ICDS Student Advisory Council (SAC) employs a number of paid leadership positions to support the student-run committee’s mission to create a safe and supportive space for disabled student and allies to foster a growing community of inclusion, accessibility, and disability culture, and to ensure that disabled students are represented and included at all levels of the Institute’s operations.

ICDS is currently able to nominally compensate the ICDS SAC Leadership Team on an hourly basis for attended meetings and Advisory Council leadership work. We encourage those who are interested in future leadership openings to get involved as regular attending members: job openings for leadership positions will prioritize students who have a history of engagement with SAC and the Institute for Critical Disability Studies.

Openings will be updated on an as-needed basis.

• Applications currently open: YES!
• SAC Student Leadership Positions may include: Co-Presidents, Secretary, Social Media Coordinator
• Current number of positions open right now: 2-3
• Hourly rate: starts at $20.50/hr
  • These are Peer Advisor 2, ESE positions represented by WAWU Union
• Number of hours: 2-4 hours per month (no more than 14 hours per quarter)
• Deadline to apply: positions are open until filled

• SAC Student Leadership Team job descriptions (for reference use only when positions are not vacant)
  • Co-President
  • Secretary
  • Social Media Coordinator

Post last updated August 2025.

Daman Wandke is an Instructor who teaches Disability Studies courses and hires one or more Faculty Assistants to his team annually. Positions typically require Work Study award to hire.

Please contact Daman Wandke wandked@wwu.edu with questions on current job availability.

Post last updated: November 2025

We will begin accepting applications for 2026 UnConference Student Employees in August 2026.

• Application deadline: September 2026 or until the positions are filled.
  • Applications will start to be evaluated on a rolling basis beginning on Monday, September TBD, 2026.
• Position eligibility:
  • Undergraduates
  • Graduate students (hourly nonsalaried position)
• Number of positions: At least 6 available
• Work Study also available for eligible students: YES – please contact icds@wwu.edu directly to inquire
• Number of hours: 13 – 22 hours (includes training & orientation)
• Availability required for these key dates (please specify if available in–person, virtual, or either):
  • Saturday and Sunday of October 2026 corresponding to Fall Family Weekend
• This work opportunity is an ESE (Educational Student Employees) position covered by the Western Academic Workers United (WAWU) ♥ collective bargaining agreement ♥.
• Application review timeline:
  • Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting TBD, 2026.
  • Applications will be accepted until Friday, September TBD, 2026, or until positions are filled, whichever is earlier.
• Links to job postings with job requirements and full application instructions:
  • old Job description 2025 (PDF format)

Post last updated: September 2025

We are no longer taking applications for 2025 UnConference Student Staff

• Application deadline: September 23, 2025 or until the positions are filled.
  • Applications will start to be evaluated on a rolling basis beginning on Monday, September 08, 2025.
• Position eligibility:
  • Undergraduates
  • Graduate students (hourly nonsalaried position)
• Number of positions: At least 2 available
• Work Study also available for eligible students: YES – please contact icds@wwu.edu directly to inquire
• Number of hours: 15 – 24 hours (includes training & orientation)
• In-person availability required for these key dates:
  • Saturday and Sunday October 18-19, 2025
• Application review timeline:
  • Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting on September 08.
  • Applications will be accepted until Tuesday, September 23, 2025, or until positions are filled, whichever is earlier.
• Links to job postings with job requirements and full application instructions:
  • Job Description 2025 (PDF format)

Post last updated July 2024.

Daman Wandke is an Instructor who teaches Disability Studies courses and is looking for a teaching assistant (TA) to join his TA team. Learn more about job #68654 here (requires WWU login).

Please contact Daman Wandke wandked@wwu.edu with questions on current job availability.

Post last updated: September 2024

• Applications are now closed
• Number of positions: 2 or 3 Available
  • Salaried GTA positions (full or partial tuition waiver, health benefits)
    • Full-time salaried GTA (20 hr/wk);
    • Half-time salaried GTA (10 hr/wk);
  • Non-salaried (hourly) GTA positions (sorry, no tuition waiver or health benefits)
    • 5-9 hrs/wk
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant Position Information and application (word document download)
• Duration: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025, and/or Full 2024-25 Academic Year
• Deadline to apply: August 25, 2024 Update: The Application for 2024-25 has closed

Post last updated: September 2024

• Application deadline: 11:59 pm Friday, September 27, 2024 or until the positions are filled.
  • Applications will start to be evaluated on a rolling basis beginning on Monday, September 16, 2024.
• Position eligibility:
  • Undergraduates
  • Graduate students (hourly nonsalaried position)
• Number of positions: At least 6 available
• Work Study also available for eligible students: YES – please contact icds@wwu.edu directly to inquire
• Number of hours: 17 – 27 hours (includes training & orientation)
• Availability required for these key dates (please specify if available in–person, virtual, or either):
  • Saturday, October 19, 2024
  • Sunday, October 20, 2024
• This work opportunity is an ESE (Educational Student Employees) position covered by the Western Academic Workers United (WAWU) ♥ collective bargaining agreement ♥.
• Deadline to apply: 11:59 pm, Friday, September 27, 2024 or until positions are filled.
• Links to job postings with job requirements and full application instructions:
  • #68896: https://www.finaid.wwu.edu/studentjobs/students/view-job.php?jobnum=68896
  • Job description (PDF format)

Post last updated: September 2024

• Application deadline: 11:59 pm Friday, September 27, 2024 or until the positions are filled.
  • Applications will start to be evaluated on a rolling basis beginning on Monday, September 16, 2024.
• Position eligibility:
  • Undergraduates
  • Graduate students (hourly nonsalaried position)
• Number of positions: At least 2 available
• Work Study also available for eligible students: YES – please contact icds@wwu.edu directly to inquire
• Number of hours: 17 – 24 hours (includes training & orientation)
• Availability required for these key dates (please specify if available in–person, virtual, or either):
  • Saturday, October 19, 2024
  • Sunday, October 20, 2024
• Deadline to apply: 11:59 pm, Friday, September 27, 2024 or until positions are filled.
• Links to job postings with job requirements and full application instructions:
  • #68895: https://www.finaid.wwu.edu/studentjobs/students/view-job.php?jobnum=68895
  • Job Description (PDF format)

• Applications have closed for this quarter.
• Number of positions: 2 or 3 Available
  • Salaried GTA positions (full or partial tuition waiver, health benefits)
    • Full-time salaried GTA (20 hr/wk);
    • Half-time salaried GTA (10 hr/wk);
  • Non-salaried (hourly) GTA positions
    • 5-9 hrs/wk
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant Position Information (PDF of position announcement linked here)
• Duration: Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024, and/or Full 2023-24 Academic Year
• Deadline to apply: 11:59 pm, Friday, Augusst 25, 2023

The ICDS Student Advisory Council (SAC) employs a number of paid leadership positions to support the student-run committee’s mission to create a safe and supportive space for disabled student and allies to foster a growing community of inclusion, accessibility, and disability culture, and to ensure that disabled students are represented and included at all levels of the Institute’s operations.

• Applications currently open: NONE
• Applications currently closed for: Co-Presidents, Co-Secretaries, Social Media Coordinator
• Current number of positions available: 0
• Work Study also available for eligible students: YES
• Number of hours: 5-15 hours per quarter
• Deadline to apply: positions are open until filled
• Links to job postings with full application instructions and application form:
  • Co-Presidents – no openings
  • Co-Secretary Job description and application instructions here
    • Work Study: yes – contact icds@wwu.edu
    • Non-workstudy: yes
  • Social Media Coordinator job description and application instructions here
    • Work Study: yes – contact icds@wwu.edu
    • Non-workstudy: yes

Post last updated Fall 2023.

Daman Wandke is an Instructor who teaches Disability Studies courses and is looking for a teaching assistant (TA) to join his TA team. Learn more about job #66743 here (requires WWU login).

Please contact Daman Wandke wandked@wwu.edu with questions on current job availability.

• Application deadline: 11:59 pm Friday, September 29, 2023 or until the positions are filled.
  • Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis beginning on Monday, September 2023.
• Position eligibility:
  • Undergraduates (work study & non-workstudy)
  • Graduate students (hourly nonsalaried)
• Number of positions: At least 6 available
• Work Study also available for eligible students: YES – please contact icds@wwu.edu directly to inquire
• Number of hours: 17 – 26 hours (includes training & orientation)
• Availability required for these key dates:
  • Saturday, October 21, 2023
  • Sunday, October 22, 2023
• Deadline to apply: 11:59 pm, Friday, September 29, 2023 or until positions are filled.
• Links to job postings with full application instructions:
  • Position #67205: https://www.finaid.wwu.edu/studentjobs/students/view-job.php?jobnum=67205

• Application deadline: 11:59 pm Friday, September 29, 2023 or until the positions are filled.
  • Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis beginning on Monday, September 2023.
• Number of positions: At least 2 undergraduate position available
• Work Study positions also available for eligible students: YES – contact icds@wwu.edu directly with inquiries.
• Number of hours: 17 – 26 hours (includes training & orientation)
• Availability required for these key dates:
  • Saturday, October 21, 2023
  • Sunday, October 22, 2023
• Deadline to apply: 11:59 pm, Friday, September 29, 2023, but may close early if positions are filled before then.
• Link to job postings with full application instructions:
  • Position No. 67204:https://www.finaid.wwu.edu/studentjobs/students/view-job.php?jobnum=67204

• Application is currently closed for co-presidents and co-secretaries.
• Number of positions: At least 2 available
• Work Study also available for eligible students: YES
• Number of hours: 5-10 hours per quarter
• Deadline to apply: positions are open until filled: check back in Fall for openings.
• Link to job postings with full application instructions:
  • Co-Presidents
    • Work Study: 66349
    • Non-wokstudy: 66350
  • Co-Secretary
    • Work Study: 66351
    • Non-workstudy: 66352

• Application deadline has closed; hiring decisions will be announced soon.
• Position eligibility:
  • Undergraduates (work study & non-workstudy)
  • Graduate students
• Number of positions: At least 6 available
• Work Study also available for eligible students: YES
• Number of hours: 17 – 26 hours (includes training & orientation)
• Availability required for these key dates:
  • Saturday, October 22, 2022
  • Sunday, October 23, 2022
• Deadline to apply: 11:59 pm, Friday, September 30, 2022
• Links to job postings with full application instructions:
  • Work study: https://www.finaid.wwu.edu/studentjobs/students/view_job.php?jobnum=65222
  • Non-workstudy: https://www.finaid.wwu.edu/studentjobs/students/view_job.php?jobnum=65223

• Application deadline has closed; hiring decisions will be announced soon.
• Number of positions: At least 2 available
• Work Study also available for eligible students: YES
• Number of hours: 17 – 26 hours (includes training & orientation)
• Availability required for these key dates:
  • Saturday, October 22, 2022
  • Sunday, October 23, 2022
• Deadline to apply: 11:59 pm, Friday, September 30, 2022
• Link to job postings with full application instructions:
  • Work Study: https://www.finaid.wwu.edu/studentjobs/students/view_job.php?jobnum=65220
  • Non-wokstudy: https://www.finaid.wwu.edu/studentjobs/students/view_job.php?jobnum=65221

• Application has closed for AY 2022-23
• Number of positions: 2 Available
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant Position Information
• Duration: Fall 2022 through Spring 2023
• Deadline to apply: 11:59 pm, Monday, September 12, 2022