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Capitalizing on Student Workers

The City of Auburn’s Student Employment Programs

University of Texas at Dallas

Wendy L. Hassett

City of Auburn, Alabama

For more than a decade, the City of Auburn, Alabama, has employed university students as part-time firefighters, police aides, and 911 communicators. The most fully developed program allows students to be trained and work as state-certified firefighters. Newly constructed fire stations have separate dormitory-style rooms for the students. Tuition is paid by the city as long as the students earn at least a 2.5 grade point average. This program has been cost effective for the city and the source of tuition assistance for hundreds of college students. Furthermore, it has created a talented pool of candidates for regular city employment.

Key Words: student workers • firefighters • government • employment • trainee-ships • productivity

Review of Public Personnel Administration, Vol. 25, No. 2, 181-192 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0734371X04263139


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