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GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIPS
We provide financial assistance matched by few other programs in the country so that you can concentrate on your studies, not your pocketbook. We offer four-year full-time assistantships to doctoral students while nearly all our peer institutions provide only three. We support our MFA students with full-time assistantships for three years rather than the typical half-time assistantships. Many programs offer little or no help to master?s students. We also provide two-year assistantships for our master?s students. The University provides generous support to underrepresented minority students including the PROMPT, Graduate Dean?s and Bridge to the Doctorate fellowships.
Graduate assistantships are intended for superior students in good academic standing. These assistantships involve a variety of duties including, but not limited to, direct teaching, assisting faculty with specific courses, assisting faculty with research projects, and administrative activities.
Applications for assistantships, including all supporting materials, must be received by the Director of Graduate Studies by Jan 2nd for all programs except Professional Media Practice. The deadline for Professional Media Practice is December 1st.
Assistantship assignments are made by the Director of Graduate Studies in consultation with the department chairs and directors. Some assistantships are 50% (half-time) positions requiring 20 hours of work per week; some are 25% (quarter-time) positions requiring 10 hours of work per week. Specific duties are determined by the faculty member(s) to whom the assistant is assigned. Students will normally receive a nine-month assistantship contract, renewable each year of their program based upon satisfactory progress. M.A. students may receive up to four semesters of assistantship; M.F.A. and Ph.D. students may receive up to six semesters of assistantship. Graduate assistants must successfully complete a minimum of six credit hours per semester as evidence of satisfactory progress toward the degree.
Students on academic probation may not hold an assistantship. Students who are placed on academic probation while holding an assistantship will lose their assistantship at the end of their graduate assistantship contract period. Students losing their assistantships because of academic probation will not necessarily be awarded another assistantship if they raise their GPA above the academic minimum within the required one-semester time period.
The Graduate School has compiled a useful Graduate Assistant Handbook available for review and download from the Internet.
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