Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant titles are in the unclassified service and in the SUNY Graduate Student Negotiating Unit.

• Title Code 3780300 Teaching Assistant (10 month) (T9)
• Title Code 3772220 Teaching Assistant (12 month) (V9)
• Title Code 3772210 Teaching Assistant (HS) (U9)

Appointees to these titles must be enrolled as graduate students. Teaching Assistant titles assigned to academic functions are considered "instructional" and budgeted in I&DR-Instruction. [Note: Graduate Assistants assigned to academic functions are charged to I&DR-Support.]

(HS) identifies assistantships assigned to Health Sciences functions.

There is a negotiated minimum stipend for the academic year for full assistantships at University Center campuses. Consult the current agreement.

TEACHING ASSISTANT, performs teaching assistance at a campus, while concurrently holding graduate student status. Does related work as required.

• Assists faculty members by teaching part-time in undergraduate classes;
• supplements faculty instruction and classroom supervision of a faculty member.
• Ordinarily pursues a graduate program 2/3 or 3/4 time;
• usually receives a tuition waiver and cash stipend for support.

Teaching Assistants may be awarded full assistantships or half assistantships. Graduate student employees on a full/half assistantship are generally expected to provide 20/10 hours of service per week. Employees in this bargaining unit are engaged in professional activities of such a nature that the output produced or the result accomplished often cannot be precisely measured in relation to a given period of time. It is therefore anticipated that there will be fluctuations above and below these general expectations.

Preferred Qualifications:

A Bachelor's degree and acceptance into matriculated graduate status at a SUNY campus.

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