Is there a special name/word or popular phrase for the students who work part-time/full-time to generate income while at college or in school?
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As a professor in a second-tier public university in the U.S., I just call them students. Those with sufficient family (or trust-fund) financial support to attend without simultaneously holding down paid jobs are a small minority; one might almost better seek a distinguishing term for them, perhaps scholars of means. Of course, elsewhere in the world it can be a very different story.– Brian DonovanCommented Dec 22, 2015 at 15:59
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For undergraduates who are employed by the school itself (assisting teachers, working in the library, etc.), the term has always been "work-study" students, in my experience. For graduate students employed assisting professors in their academic fields, the term is "research assistant", or "RA", or if with their teaching tasks (e.g. grading), "teaching assistant", or "TA", again in my experience.– Jeff YCommented Dec 22, 2015 at 17:11
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@tchrist Are you sure there is a reasonable answer there? (Not that I can think of one.)– Edwin AshworthCommented Dec 22, 2015 at 17:52
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@BrianDonovan, what about "Students with jobs".– JakeCommented Dec 23, 2015 at 1:55
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I have encountered the term non-traditional. Though this phrase can also include older, returning or other categories of students who do not conform to the tradition of entering right after high school, living on campus and studying full-time.
