By: Diane Benjamin
A reader sent a Freedom of Information request to ISU for student employees in the offices listed below.
This email and document were received from the FOIA officer at ISU:
3 of the students are related to the FOIA officer.
Children of ISU employees get 1/2 off tuition too.
Only one job was ever posted.
How is this fair to all the other kids paying full price?
Is it ISU policy to not post jobs?
What about the guy paid $50 per hour? The job was never posted!
According to this site, James Carl Osorio is a music major: https://loadingpianist.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/decided/
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The music major probably gets a comp rate for playing an event for an hour or two. That is cheap considering what it costs other places to have live music at an event. Our church is charged much more than that per hour, and that’s at a severely discounted rate.
Charging a church? That’s a new one!
I understand considering there is mileage, instrument insurance, and their time. We bring in special musical talent at times for special services. Some musicians are business providers just like the person doing the lawn, fixing the toilets, etc.
Why wouldn’t you charge a church? They don’t pay taxes, they have the money.
Mine doesn’t because it’s tiny – members keep leaving the state. Besides we consider it using the gifts given to glorify God.
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“Children of ISU employees get 1/2 off tuition.” So, it’s a benefit we receive, what does it matter?
THOUSANDS of dollars. Hope it’s taxable.
Oh, it is.
The likely reason that these aren’t posted publicly is because they are work study positions. Meaning federal financial aid covers the wage costs. Students not eligible for financial aid, specifically work study, cannot apply, therefore they aren’t publicly posted. Not all financial aid recipients are eligible for work study.
Same thing with graduate assistant positions, there only available for eligible graduate students in certain programs, therefore not all grad students can apply.
It’s highly, highly likely that this is much ado about nothing.
False!!
Do tell….
Work study has income limitations. There is no way Jay’s kids qualify. And they post work study positions all the time.
No, they wouldn’t qualify if there are income limitations. However, what does ISU consider “public” when posting a job? Were these jobs on ilstujobs.com?
No these jobs were not on the ISU job board.
Interesting, for sure!
More next!
A lot of jobs don’t get posted and that goes for the private sector. Sometimes it’s word of mouth or managers speak with trusted individuals to recommend someone. It’s not uncommon to see family members get hired on at a place because they know someone. Where Nepotism becomes troublesome is if the people being hired are incompetent or just collecting a paycheck. It’s not exclusive to ISU and as long as the person does the job I have no issue with it.
Government jobs have laws for hiring. Big difference between spending your own money and hiring relatives at taxpayer expense.