Amazon continues to make a push on campus, now listing
job opportunities at the Berkeley and Santa Barbara campuses of the University
of California and the University of Cincinnati. The listing appears on the company’s
website and offers candidates $13.15 per hour to work at new Campus Pick-Up Point (CPP)
locations.
The CPP program began last February to provide students
living in dorms or apartments near campus with an easy way to receive their
online orders from Amazon. It’s also seen as part of a move into the college
market that includes co-branded websites with UC Davis and Purdue University
and taking over course materials operations at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, according to a report in Fortune.
The Cincinnati Business Courier reported that Amazon took out a building permit in a building development near the Cincinnati
campus and lists Nov. 13, 2015, as the approximate start date for employees of at
that location.
However, the job postings and building permits don’t
necessarily mean there’s a partnership between Amazon and the
universities. According to Fortune,
a spokesperson for UC Santa Barbara said the school was not associated with any
Amazon venture.
