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Student working at CMU

Welcome to Student Employment Services.
We support students and campus departments throughout the on campus student employment experience at Central Michigan University. 
Student Employment Services can help with finding on campus jobs, understanding employment requirements, and navigating the student employment process.

Student Work Hour Limit
Student employees may work a maximum of 50 hours per pay period during the fall and spring semesters including exam weeks, winter Break, and spring Break.

Finding on campus student jobs

Beginning January 5, 2026, on campus student employment opportunities will be available in Career Central, the university's platform for student employment postings.
Career Central brings student job opportunities together in one centralized location. Student accounts are automatically created.

Work Study and employment eligibility

Work Study is a federal financial aid program that is awarded to eligible students. While not all students qualify for Work Study, many on campus jobs are available to students without it.
Student Employment Services can help students understand their eligibility and on campus employment options.

Required employment paperwork

All student employees are required to complete I-9 and tax paperwork through Student Employment Services before beginning work on campus.
Proper identification is required to complete employment paperwork.

Supervisors and departments

Campus departments use Career Central to create and manage on campus student job postings.
Student Employment Services reviews postings, while hiring actions continue to be completed through Personnel Transactions.

Getting started

Student information

Explore current job openings, find answers to frequently asked questions and get valuable job search tips to help you succeed.

Student information

Supervisor information

Access essential forms, explore the handbook and resources, review hiring dates, and get all the tools you need to manage student employment smoothly.

Supervisor information

More Than You Needed to Know - Works by David Stairs

Poster for the upcoming David Stairs exhibition. Side by side images of him as a youth and as he is today with the words More than you needed to know laid over the images.
Details:

This is a 50-year retrospective with documentation of work by David Stairs, professor of graphic design at Central Michigan University. He is active in the area of social design and has published and been anthologized numerous times including in Design Issues and on the Design Observer website. In 2000 he received a two-year Fulbright to lecture and do research at the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. In 2002 Stairs founded Designers Without Borders in conjunction with his work in Africa. In 2006 he founded the Design-Altruism-Project weblog. In 2012 he received his second Fulbright research award, this time to India. He directed and produced the design documentary Digging the Suez Canal with a Teaspoon, 2019. Stairs is an internationally renowned book artist, with work in collections around the world including MOMA New York, MOCA Chicago, the Tate, and the Smithsonian. He has been represented by Printed Matter in New York since 1980. His book Okuwangaala: The Resilience of vernacular in Everyday African Design was published in September 2025.

Main Gallery
Reception: October 24, 2026, 2-4pm
Artist Talk: November 5, 2026, 5pm, Opperman Auditorium, Park Library

Date: -
Time: -
Location: University Art Gallery
University Art Gallery, 251 E. Preston St.
Mount Pleasant, Michigan , USA
Admission: Free and open to the public
Sponsor: College of the Arts and Media University Art Gallery
Contact: Anne Gochenour, Director of the University Art Gallery goche1as@cmich.edu 989-774-7457
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