Graduate Assistant - History - Fall 2026

Graduate Assistant - History - Fall 2026

Company: University of Central Missouri

Job Location: Warrensburg, 64093

Category: History

Type: Adjunct/Part-Time

Salary: $550.00 Semi-Monthly

Location: UCMO - Warrensburg, MO

Job Type: Graduate Assistant

Job Number: G98067

Division: History

Description

In some of our largest classes (with often over 100 students enrolled) we employ a Graduate Assistant to help with classroom learning and management. Graduate students assist with activities, presentations, attendance-taking, testing, grading and other student assignments. Graduate Assistants in these courses enable us to include an emphasis of writing where it would otherwise be impossible. Also, the Teaching Assistantship allows advanced students who are eager to pursue teaching careers to earn and be mentored in effective teaching. Finally, graduate students provide service to the university on committees, take classes, and become alumni. The Graduate Assistants will devote five hours of their time to maintaining a current internship/jobs list for undergraduate and graduate students and updating that list every two weeks. The student would monitor weekly any internships/jobs posted at the Organization of American Historians, National Council on Public History, American Association for State and Local History, Missouri State Jobs, and municipal job websites. The person would also be responsible for planning, in consultation with the Graduate Director, a fall internship professional development session for undergraduate and graduate students on how to uncover jobs and internships.

Examples of Duties

The Graduate Assistant, working in conjunction with the Graduate Director, will devote five hours of their time in staffing the digital lab on the third floor of Wood. The student would monitor weekly any internships/jobs posted at the Organization of American Historians, National Council on Public History, American Association for State and Local History, Missouri State Jobs, and municipal job websites. The person would also be responsible for planning, in consultation with the Graduate Director, a fall internship professional development session for undergraduate and graduate students on how to uncover jobs and internships.

Typical Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree Required
• Currently admitted to a UCM graduate degree program
• 3.0 or higher graduate level GPA if previous graduate level courses have been taken
• 2.7 or higher undergraduate level GPA if no previous graduate level courses have been taken
• A minimum of 6 and maximum of 12 graduate credit hours enrolled for Fall.
• Looking for candidates that have undergraduate degree in history and who are pursuing the MA in History degree.

Supplemental Information

GA Type: Teaching

GA Hour Expectations: 20 hours per week

Start Date of Position: 08/10/2026

End Date of Position: 12/11/2026

Total Stipend for Semester: $4,950

Working Days & Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM. No more than 20 hours a week.

Scholarship: Students filling a Graduate Assistantship (GA) position are eligible to receive a graduate tuition waiver, a graduate non-resident tuition waiver (if applicable), and a graduate mandatory fees waiver. The scholarships are in the form of a waiver and the funds are not deposited into the student's personal account. Instead, the student's bill is reduced by the amount of the scholarship awarded. If the maximum amount of the scholarship is not used, the remainder is not paid to the student in any form and unused scholarship money cannot be carried over to another semester. The scholarship is applied to graduate level courses only; courses taken for undergraduate credit are not eligible to be covered by the GA scholarship. The non-resident fee scholarship only applies to classes taken on the UCM Warrensburg campus. The maximum scholarship amounts are based on the size of assistantship held. For a full (20-hour per week) assistantship, the scholarship covers tuition costs and mandatory fees up to 12 credit hours of graduate coursework per semester. Graduate assistantship positions less than full will be prorated accordingly.

Special Instructions:

• Full-time staff & 12-month faculty benefits-eligible position: Benefits include competitive salary; health, dental, vision, life insurance, AD & D, long-term disability; 3 weeks paid vacation per year; 3 weeks of accrued sick leave per year; 13 paid holidays; retirement; and generous education assistance for an employee, spouse and dependent children taking classes at UCM.
• 9-month faculty benefits-eligible position: Benefits include competitive salary; health, dental, vision, life insurance, AD & D, long-term disability; 3 weeks of accrued sick leave per year; 13 paid holidays; retirement; and generous education assistance for an employee, spouse and dependent children taking classes at UCM.
• Part-time benefits-eligible positions: Benefits include generous education assistance for the employee.
• Temporary, adjunct, student employment, or graduate assistant positions: Benefits are not included.

Completed UCM online application for employment required. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

A review will begin immediately and continue until filled unless indicated otherwise.

NOTE: A background check is required for the selected candidate of all staff, faculty, adjunct, and temporary positions and any job offer is contingent on the results of this check. Student employees and graduate assistants do not require a background check to be conducted prior to employment.

The University of Central Missouri is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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