"Graduate Assistant 2025-2026"

Graduate Assistant 2025-2026

Under close supervision of a faculty or staff member, Graduate Assistants assist faculty and staff with various professional and technical duties associated generally with the subjects or programs in which the Assistant is doing graduate work.

The responsibilities of a Graduate Assistant are to be determined by normal departmental procedures. Responsibilities, under the close supervision of a faculty or staff member, typically include duties below based on the Graduate Assistantship assigned. You will be able to select which assistantship you are interested in later in the application process.

Teaching Assistantship (TA)

Teaching assistants (TA) assist faculty with instructional responsibilities or serve as the principle instructor in one or more courses. TAs are selected on the basis of past teaching experience or academic promise as effective instructors in their field of study. Duties may include assisting faculty with teaching-related tasks (e.g., leading discussion groups, lecturing, laboratory, preparing instructional materials, grading exams), responsibilities associated with a self-contained class, and/or advising students.

Graduate Teaching Assistants who have the primary responsibility of teaching a course for credit and/or assigning final grades for such a course must have earned at least 18 graduate semester hours in the teaching discipline, be under the direct supervision of a faculty member experienced in the teaching discipline, receive regular in-service training, and be regularly evaluated. All first time teaching assistants are required to attend the Graduate Assistant Professional Development Workshop that is held prior to the beginning of each semester.

Graduate Assistants shall not be responsible for the instructional content of a course, for selection of student assignments, for planning of examinations, or for determining the term grade for students, nor are they assigned responsibility for instructing the entire enrollment of a class, or for providing the entire instruction of a group of students enrolled in a course.

Research Assistant (RA)

Research Assistants (RA) are selected for excellence in scholarship and promise as researchers. RAs work in research, administrative, academic and other university settings to assist faculty or other university personnel on research projects. They do part-time research as a portion of their training under the direct supervision of regular faculty members or work with administrative units to support the research initiatives of the institution. Duties vary by discipline and program, but generally include data collection and entry, data analysis, attending conferences to present results, and training and supervising less experienced researchers.

Service Assistantship (SA)

Service Assistants (SA) work with the administrative staff of a school, department, college, or office to assist in the operations of the university whose mission is closely related to the student's area of academic study or interest. Service assistantships are available for academic and nonacademic units. Duties vary widely, but may include gathering, organizing, and analyzing information, implementing and evaluating programs, academic advising, academic tutoring, career counseling, preparing marketing materials, and recruitment events.

Departments are responsible to inform each Graduate Assistant of University policies that relate to their assignment and to assist the Graduate Assistant in the implementation of these policies.

In the event a Graduate Assistant has an extended absence or does not complete the assigned work, then the salary may be reduced accordingly.

Minimum Required Education

Bachelor's Degree

Department: Academic Affairs

Employment Location: Main Campus, Fairmont

Position will report to (title): Graduate Director

Anticipated Hire Date: 08/18/2025

Base Salary/Hourly Rate: 8000.00

Job Posting Date: 12/13/2024

Job Close Date: 09/30/2025