Buckley Public Service Scholars Graduate Assistant

Each year, the Carolina Center for Public Service offers support for 6-8 Carolina graduate students to serve as skills training facilitators and share their expertise with undergraduate students engaged in service in the community and on campus. Selected graduate students are required to facilitate at least two skills trainings (one per semester) for Buckley Public Service Scholars (BPSS) participants as well as help with the review process of BPSS portfolios submitted by graduating seniors.

In order to graduate with BPSS, undergraduate students enrolled in the program must complete at least four approved skills trainings, each connected to at least one of the following topics:

Advocacy and community organizing
Diversity and cultural awareness
Effective communication
Ethics and leadership
Evaluation and applied research
Financial management
Fundraising, grant writing and philanthropy
Planning and assessment
Service-specific training (e.g. rape crisis counseling or ESL instruction)
Social entrepreneurship and innovation
Skills trainings must be interactive and designed for participants to build and practice skills. Events where students simply learn information or gain awareness (such as through a lecture, panel or presentation) do not apply. All trainings must be a minimum of one hour in length.

In addition to offering a skills training three times each semester, BPSS graduate assistants will be asked to contribute to the program through one other role, such as responding to student senior reflection submissions, offering them feedback on their attempt to synthesize and make meaning of their public service experiences while they were enrolled in the program. Each graduate student receives a stipend of $1,600

Graduate and professional students can apply online through the CCPS Application and Nomination Portal.