Get involved and volunteer with SAS!

Many members of the university community are involved in the work of the University of Guelph Student Accessibility Services. If you're interested in joining our team, please consider one of the following opportunities:

Exam Proctors

We hire part-time casual staff each semester to help monitor exam rooms while students are writing their exams. These staff members are not current undergraduate students. More information will be posted here during our next hiring cycle.

Peer Helpers

Student Accessibility Services has a team of 10 Peer Helpers [1] who assist students with disabilities with academic and practical needs in the following roles and beyond:

• Meal guides: support students who require help in obtaining their meals and join them for their meals.
• Guides: assist students in getting to their classes or anywhere else on campus they need to go.
• One-to-one: work with students who experience various difficulties in academics, including assistance with finding tutors and helping with procrastination and time management.
• Recreation Equity on Campus (REC) club: promote the group and assist students with their workout regimes.
• Social Event and Fundraising: create and promote activities to involve SAS students more at the University.

Required Time Commitment: 5 hours/week (~60 hours/semester).

Work-Study Students

These students are employed through the Work Study Program [2], which offers opportunities for students with demonstrated financial need. These part-time staff members help run our volunteer notetaking service.

Volunteer Notetakers

Support your peers while enhancing your own learning! Becoming a volunteer is easy and looks great on your resume. Volunteer notetakers agree to share their notes from their own regular classes. This helps students in those same classes who face barriers to taking their own notes. Students receiving notes may have:

• Dexterity impairments that make writing difficult

• Information processing challenges that affect notetaking speed or organization

• Other functional limitations requiring notetaking support as an academic accommodation

By volunteering, you’re directly contributing to your peers' academic success, and many notetakers report that the process also helps improve their own learning and study habits!

→ Learn more about becoming a Volunteer Notetaker [3]