POSITION SUMMARY
The Teaching and Learning Transformation Hub houses the Tutoring and Learning Supports Department, the Library and Educational Resources (LER) Department, and the Academic Professional Development Department. The Library & Educational Resources Department strategically aligns its programs to improve institutional, program, and course-level student learning outcomes.
The Community College of Aurora is seeking a current graduate library science student or recent graduate to serve as a Research & Instruction Intern. This position is a part-time temporary through the end of FY25. This position will focus on serving CCA students with research help services. This includes answering reference questions via email, chat or in person. This position will also assist with providing library instruction sessions on various aspects of research skills and information literacy topics. This position will also perform other library tasks as needed and determined by the Director of Library & Educational Resources Department in collaboration with the intern and based on needs and interests.
OVERVIEW OF CCA
The Community College of Aurora serves our diverse community by providing high-quality instruction and support services to prepare students for transfer and employment. We are particularly interested in applicants that demonstrate a commitment to working with individuals and groups from diverse identities, including but not limited to: socioeconomic, cultural, sexual orientation, gender identity expression, disability, multilingual learners, veterans, non-traditional, race and ethnic backgrounds
We actively promote a dynamic learning environment in which qualified individuals of differing perspectives and cultural backgrounds pursue academic goals with mutual respect and shared inquiry. CCA enrolls 11,000 students annually, over 62% of whom are students of color, including nearly 32% Hispanic students, 65% of CCA students receive some type of financial aid, including 52% of whom receive Pell grants, and nearly two-thirds are first-generation college students.
More than 20 different languages and 60 countries are represented at CCA. In addition to traditional degree and certificate programs, CCA offers non-credit professional development courses, customized training, and economic and workforce development resources to employer partners and individual professionals seeking to enhance the capacity and productivity of their workforce or individual knowledge and skills. The college centers diversity, equity, and inclusion and we actively seek to employee partners who want to join us in working to reducing outcome gaps among our diverse student population.