What do students who work in EBR Dining Services gain from the experience? From personal experience I know that EBR Dining Services has a high turn over rate. There is a select group of students however who choose to work at EBR on a long term basis. I define long term as having worked at EBR Dining Services for four semesters or more. I want to know why these students choose to continue working at EBR rather than quitting within one or two semesters like other workers. Sub-questions designed to help me answer my main research question are as follows: are there noticeable ethnic, gender, or class trends amongst long term workers? What are some of the rituals associated with the student worker culture at EBR? How are relationships amongst the full-time (Champaign-Urbana resident) workers and the student workers? I predict that through ethnographic observations and interviews I will discover that student workers gain much more than a paycheck from their work experience at EBR. I am assuming that the workers are gaining a meaningful interpersonal experience on the job as well, similar to what they might encounter in a close-knit club or organization.
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"EPS 500pf1: Race and Ethnography: A Study of the University, Prof. Priscilla Fortier.
As a member of this course students join a campus-wide learning community in which the University of Illinois is being explored ethnographically. Students begin the course by thinking about what the university is, as well as about race and ethnicity as phenomena within the university's narratives. One area of concentration will be ""ethnography,"" and students learn and practice the basic skills of observation, interviewing, and writing as an ethnographer. They complete several relatively short assignments that are intended to help them develop these skills, as well as one larger ethnographic project on the University. The latter allows students to explore an aspect of the university that has to do with as issue of race or ethnicity. The course syllabus is available at: www.eui.uiuc.edu/docs/syllabi/EPS500F07.doc"
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