Department’s Guide to the

Administration of Graduate Assistantships

Published by John Chambers, Director of Administration, The Graduate School

September 2003 (Rev. September, 2014)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Student Employees
• Qualifications for Graduate Assistantships
• Categories of Graduate Student Employment
• Enrollment Requirements
• Confirmation of Class Schedules
• Graduate Assistantships - Work Requirements
• International Students and INS Regulations
• Teaching Assistants’ FTE
• Stipends
• Permanently Budgeted Departmental Assistantships
• Tuition Grants
• Withdrawal - Impact on Tuition Charges & Grants
• Taxes and FICA
• Memorandum of Appointment
• Personnel Action Forms (PA Forms)
• Tuition Request Forms
• SACS and the 18-hour rule > See Flowchart
• Interim and Summer Terms
• Fellowships
• On Screen Reporting of Assistantships
• FAQs
• Forms, and where to get them

APPENDICES

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