“I think that we need to go back to paying the note-takers,” Grant said. “So those classes are graduated, possibly will end up with more volunteers, but I can’t see that happening right away.”įor Grant, the solution is simple. “Because the upperclassmen right now have all been here when the note-takers, they know about that program,” Grant said. To help make up the difference, Grant said OAE is offering students with note-taking accommodations permission to record their classes, as long as they agree to keep recordings private and delete them after the class. Of the 105 classes for which OAE is hoping to find volunteer student note-takers, only about 40 have been filled. The volunteer student note-taker policy has had its hardships this fall, according to Grant.
“The decision to cut the program was made by OAE after they had exceeded their college-imposed student employment budget ,” Grant said. “When you take every student for each class, and we’re paying them two hours a week … it gets expensive.” “The need for note-taking increased… Most every student that has a relationship with our office was getting as an accommodation,” Grant said. This year, the program is operating on an all-volunteer basis, despite a higher number of requests for note-takers. “It wasn’t just that it was costly, but we actually found out legally … you’re not supposed to pay a student while in class,” Grant said. More recently, however, the program has only paid note-takers two hours per week for the time it took them to send their notes. In the first years of the program, the office paid students for the time they were in the classes they took notes, according to Grant. In past years, the College would pay students to scan and send their notes to an anonymous email address, which OAE would then provide to students with accommodations. The change, according to Assistant to the Director of Accessible Education Jean Grant, is the result of the department’s budgetary pressure and increased student demand for note-taking services. For specific instructions, each school’s ODS should contact their divisional Human Resource Office for Homewood students, please contact the Office of University Experiential Learning.Effective this semester, the Office of Accessible Education (OAE) has stopped paying student note-takers. In order to facilitate this required withholding and reporting, nonresident payments must be processed through University payroll. A monetary “thank you” paid to a non-employee who is a nonresident is subject to withholding and is reportable on Form 1042-S. Nonresident Alien: The following applies to all JHU schools.Citizen, Permanent Resident (LPR) & Resident Alien. This is regardless of the student’s status in SAP and includes U.S. Non-Homewood ODS: Notetakers in all other JHU schools will receive a debit card at the end of the semester, once the course has ended.Hours will be tracked and entered into CATS. Should it be necessary for Homewood to hire a student who is not enrolled in the class (non-volunteer), the position will be posted through University Experiential Learning and the student will be hired/paid through University payroll. Homewood is the only campus with a cash window. Homewood ODS: Homewood notetakers who are enrolled in the class, will receive a monetary thank-you through Petty Cash Voucher.
The method for payment will depend on the student’s enrollment status (school) and citizenship/residency status – please see below. The dollar amount of the monetary thank-you is based on the student’s year of study undergraduate notetakers will receive $25 per credit hour, graduate notetakers will receive $50 per credit hour.
#Paid notetaker full#
It is designed to ensure full compliance as well as to create consistent business practices among all JHU schools. This new policy is based on expert advice and collaboration of the offices of General Counsel, Risk Management, Accounts Payable, Student Employment, and the JHU Tax Office. After much thought and deliberation, the following policy for issuing a monetary ‘thank-you’ to Student Notetakers was established by the Office of Institutional Equity.
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