Supervisors of UK student employees play an essential role in the overall student experience. University SuperVision is also required for individuals that supervise students at UK.
Employment gives students the opportunity to earn an income, learn new skills, develop professional connections and gain new responsibilities during college. To help ensure our undergraduate student employees are successful in their roles, UK HR Student Employment is dedicated to providing our supervisors with resources to assist them as leaders. The following resources aim to keep UK supervisors regularly informed on policies, processes, events and opportunities.
- Federal Work-Study is granted to students based on need determined by their completed FAFSA forms. Through the Federal Work-Study program, departments are responsible for only 17% of the student's Federal Work-Study determined payrate. If your department is interested in learning more about how to utilize Federal Work-Study in your department, please email FWS@uky.edu.
- Departments can also establish a student wage line and hire students through the Direct User (DU) position type in IES, our online employment system. With any individual hired using a Direct User position type, the department is responsible for getting the individual into the system for payroll, approving time and completing any additional system actions such as separations. To find out if your department has a student wage line or to learn more about how to use Direct User position types to hire student employees, you should speak directly with your department’s business officer.
- Although STEPS is not typically used to hire student employees, some departments who do not have a student wage line or need to hire quickly use STEPS to fill their student positions.