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Students offer mixed opinions regarding campus employment, from wages to scheduling.

Students offer mixed opinions about on-campus employment

MacKenzie Rogers, Lifestyle Editor February 29, 2024

When it comes to getting a job while in college, many flock to on-campus positions to avoid commutes. However, with hundreds of people applying for the...

Robert Valentine
Senior lecturer
of advertising

Want a Job? Go to Your College

September 18, 2015

Column by Robert Valentine, Senior lecturer of advertising “Start with the end in mind,” said Dr. Stephen Covey. That’s good advice. When...

Hannah Fowl/The News
Arielle Lyford, graduate from Elizabethtown, Ky., holds her decorated Ariel cap from December’s graduation.

Where have all the graduates gone?

January 16, 2015

Murray State graduates can take a 12-hour or less road trip north, south, east or west and be in one of the many new cities booming with job opportunities...

Photo illustration by Fumi Nakamura
Kade Cullop dresses in casual attire and business attire to represent the stigma still associated with tattoos in the workplace.

Tattooed or employed

October 10, 2014

It is hard to find anything more permanent than ink in skin. Younger generations are accepting this form of self-expression more, but the career world...

Kylie Townsend/The News
Approximately 12 percent of the freshman class chose nursing as their major.

Freshmen seek help with major decisions

September 5, 2014

  What do you want to be when you grow up? This is a question that has been asked every year beyond kindergarten; however, within four years...

Career Fair displays job potential

March 7, 2013

Students strengthened their resumes for the spring semester Career Fair Wednesday, where they had the opportunity to make first impressions and meet potential...

Murray State revises student worker policy

August 30, 2012

Almost 95 percent of University students receive some form of financial aid, usually coming in the form of Federal Work Study, scholarship obligations,...

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