International Student Employment Assistance

What is it? How can it help me?

Michigan State UniversityOffice for International Students and Scholars

Background InformationThe International Student Employment Assistance (ISEA)

program is a new financial aid program designed to help international students who demonstrate financial need to compete for better on-campus jobs.

The Office for International Students and Scholars will administer this new program.

What is it?Students who are American citizens or legal permanent

residents are eligible for “work-study” financial aid that is supported by the U.S. Government. Eligibility is based on a student demonstrating financial need.

Work-Study pays money, not to the students, but to the on-campus employers of the students. It makes it cost 50% less to hire a student, allowing more students to be hired for more jobs on-campus.

Here’s how it worked before ISEA.

Until now, U.S. students with Work-Study were more attractive to on-

campus employers because the employers only needed to pay about half the wage paid to the student worker.

Who pays the hourly wages for on-campus employment?

As a result, U.S. students with work-study awards had more opportunities for interesting, relevant on-campus jobs.

Here’s how it works with ISEA.International Students with ISEA will now be able to compete for

better on-campus jobs because the cost to the employers will be the

same as hiring U.S. students.

Who pays the hourly wages for on-campus employment?

If I want ISEA, what do I do?

Want a better on-campus job?

Apply for the International Student Employment Assistance Program today!!

Application Deadline:January 31, 2014

Online application:https://www.finaid.msu.edu/forms/oiss/isea/apply.asp

Questions? Please contact the Office for International Students and Scholars at oiss@msu.edu.