This site on the Graduate and Professional Studies web page is the primary location for information about graduate assistantships.  When information about graduate assistantships for the 2008-09 academic year becomes available, faculty, staff and students will be able to find the information for them on this page in the menu on the left.

A full time graduate assistantship position is generally intended to be for the fall and spring semester of the specified academic year.

There are three levels of annual graduate assistantship awards as indicated below:

1.     Graduate Assistants (GA) - General work duties and athletic positions.
         *     $4,200.00 stipend for 20 hours per week
         *     12 graduate credit hours of tuition remission

2.     Teaching Assistants (TA) - Assist faculty with teaching duties.
         *     $7,200.00 stipend for 20 hours per week
         *     12 graduate credit hours of tuition remission

3.     Research Assistants (RA) - Assist faculty with research activities.
         *     $7,200.00 stipend for 20 hours per week
         *     12 graduate credit hours of tuition remission