Graduate assistantships

July 3, 2019

University Relations

Graduate students who haven't already signed their fall contracts are asking whether the hiring freeze applies to them and whether they are going to have jobs in the fall.  Teaching assistantships are funded from their departments allotment from the Chancellor, so it stands to reason that the likely response for them is "don't count on your TA", but I don't know if RA's are the same? Many of them are Fund 3, so I suspect they are going to be fine but I've been wrong before so some clarification would be helpful.

Also, would departments be able to use the TA allotments to just fund 3-credit tuition scholarships instead of the full 6-9 credits of tuition and insurance required in a TA?   From what I am hearing, students are considering jumping ship, and being able to offer some form of assistance to those who won't be offered the TA they were counting on might help take the sting out of it.