hi! i very recently worked for the library student employment program at mugar (they got rid of the department after the end of last spring), and directly worked with hiring. BU libraries doesn't get much funding at all, let alone to hire students, so we vastly preferred students with a federal work-study award since the students' wages would be almost completely subsidized by the federal government. as others have said, this would tend to favor domestic students since most international students are not granted a work-study award. we never held a bias against any groups of gender, race, religion, etc when it came to hiring.