Student Technology Assistant Representatives

In the Fall of 2001, a new technology program was created at Southern Connecticut State University. This program, referred to as STARS (Student Technology Assistance RepresentativeS) brings students, faculty and Information Technology personnel together in a collaborative effort to explore the use of technology in teaching and learning.

STARS are trained to work one-on-one with SCSU faculty members and/or IT personnel to develop and contribute to the critical mass of technological understanding on campus.

Students of any major are competitively selected based on academic grounds and to a lesser extent based on their technical skills. A STAR is hired for up to 16 hours per week to work.

Throughout their tenure at SCSU, STARS will receive extensive training in the software and hardware tools used at the university.

Southern Connecticut State University believes that in education today new technologies have become the paradigm for transforming the way our students see and understand the world. As such, SCSU STARS graduates will leave Southern with a deeper understanding of how to become effective in a work force increasingly influenced by growth in technology. Students in the STARS program can be from any discipline. STARS could major in English, History, Spanish, as well the disciplines normally associated with technology such as Computer Science, Physics, Math, etc. Thus STARS will graduate from SCSU in disciplines that - while traditionally unrelated to technology - complement the types of skills required in a technologically based work force. Businesses get a student with the skills associated with a liberal arts background as well as a student capable of applying those skills using technology. In short: STARS get jobs .