STUDENT EMPLOYMENT: INTERSECTIONS, CONNECTIONS, CONNECTION PEER EDUCATOR & GRADUATEASSISTANTSHIP

Our office provides advocacy, guidance, and support for underrepresented students and organizations. We are committed to promoting an environment that provides knowledge and the ability to be yourself while acknowledging the intersectionality of the UAlbany community.

• Intersections is a peer education program embedded in the orientation for all incoming students. It consists of four interactive, dialogue-based and peer-led social justice workshops, titled Inclusive Danes, Four Questions &AList, FromAlly toAccomplice, and Systemic Racism in the United States. The workshops engage new students at UAlbany in learning activities, dialogues, discussions, meditations, and reflections.

• The CONNECTIONS program is an opportunity for collegiates seeking leadership experiences related to diversity and inclusion to receive training to facilitate educational workshops and dialogues.As peer educators, peer facilitators play a vital role in assisting the university in creating a campus where faculty, staff and students understand, embrace, and model an awareness of, and respect for, diversity and inclusion through dialoguebased workshops across campus.

• Each ISE resource center hires students for our Connection Peer Educator position. CPE’s serve as a resource and liaison to students and student organizations, create and lead programs designed to educate, promote, and celebrate diversity, and manage our center operations.

o We encourage work-study and great job students to apply.

o Can also work as a CPE with abirritated hours as a RSW volunteer.

• TheAssociate Director for Multicultural, Interfaith, & IntersectionalAffairs utilize two (2) graduate assistants: Multicultural & InterfaithAffairs and Intersections/CONNECTIONS.

• TheAssistant Director for Women, Gender and Sexuality Affairs utilize two (2) graduate assistants: Women’s Resource Center and Gender & Sexuality Resource Center.