Prof S.O.S. – Student Offered Support

A Centralized Faculty Assistant Program to Aid in Faculty Work-Life Balance

Goal: To provide Harvey Mudd College faculty members with easy access to student assistance on occasional and/or short-term tasks and projects.

Nature of Work Supported

• Clerical – such as copying course documents or research articles, scanning documents, preparing packages or envelopes for mailing, filing, etc.
• Computational – installing software, data entry, bibliographic preparations for courses, internet searches, etc.
• Multimedia Assistance – creating/editing web pages, photo editing, video creation/editing, etc.
• Manual – such as re-organizing iClickers in numerical order after a class, boxing up books or research journals, retrieving books or articles from the library

Nature of Work Not Supported

Assistance with faculty research such as laboratory activities, analysis of data and/or primary/secondary sources; personal errands such as picking up laundry, etc.; activities requiring examination of confidential documents or grades; any activities requiring driving on or off-campus, etc.

Features of Program

• Online submission of faculty requests – each faculty member guaranteed 20 hours of paid service per semester (subject to ongoing funding availability)
• Students need not be work-study eligible to participate
• Student coordinators monitor both requests and completion of tasks

The ProfSOS General Procedure

• Professor submits request
• Students select tasks of interest
• Coordinator sets up email thread
• Professor and student decide on time(s) when task should be completed.
• Student reports that task is completed and number of hours spent.
• Professor confirms completion and hours.

Faculty: Complete the Prof SOS Task Request Form.

Thank you for taking part in the ProfSOS program, we appreciate any and all feedback! Contact us at [email]profsos-sups@g.hmc.edu[/email].

Additional questions may be directed to the chair of the faculty at [email]lisa_sullivan@hmc.edu[/email]