Graduate student TA positions

Teaching Assistantships are available to full-time graduate students. For further information, please contact the Communication Department Chair, Amy May, amay11@alaska.edu or 907-474-7761.

Graduate assistants can be paid for a maximum of 20 hours per week while school is in session. Students with assistantships must be registered for at least nine credits during the fall and spring semesters and six credits during the summer (no audits).

Teaching assistantships include a tuition payment by the university:

• For no more than 10 credits if the workload is 15 to 20 hours per week.
• For no more than 5 credits if the workload is 10 to 14 hours per week.
• If the assistantship appointment begins on or before the first day of instruction and ends on or after the last day of final examinations for that semester (16 or more weeks).