Current Openings for the M.A. in Higher Education and Student Development Programs
Pursue a Graduate Residence Advisor position or a Graduate Assistantship as a rewarding and practical means of applying your learning in the M.A. in Higher Education in Student Development.
Please note that other GA positions may be added later in the semester. Check this page regularly, and if you have already applied for the program, be sure to indicate your additional interests to your admissions counselor.
Graduate Residence Advisor (GRA) Positions 2025-26
This position will give you the opportunity to minister to the team of Resident Assistants. You will help train and prepare RAs before the school year, and then engage in weekly one-on-one mentoring sessions with four RAs during the year. This time includes providing practical support as well as emotional and spiritual support. Living in community with both your ResLife team and the residents of your buildings will provide the opportunity to walk alongside and care for students as they navigate an incredibly formational chapter of their story.
3 Apartment GRAs with outside office areas in:
- Chaplain’s office
- Intercultural Arts and Media
- Office of Multicultural Development
The Graduate Resident Advisors for campus apartments are residential positions, working in both Residence Life and with a Student Development or Student Development-related office on campus.
There are two main aspects of this position:
- interacting with your residents in the apartments and
- interacting with your work in your assigned office
This is a 20 hour a week position, with 10 hours designated for Residence Life work and 10 hours designated for your office area.
Available office areas include one position in ICAM (Intercultural Arts and Media) working with event planning and student programming, one working with the office of Ministry and Evangelism, and one position is TBD.
Graduate Assistantship (GA) Positions 2025-26
Graduate Assistants will work to create community for international students through facilitating a hospitable space and planning and working on events and group activities alongside Wheaton's culture-based organizations.
Graduate Assistants will work to coordinate service learning and volunteer programs for students centered upon sharing the redemptive work of the gospel with communities and organizations around the world.
