Graduate Assistantships

Graduate assistantships are limited to accepted degree candidates who are enrolled full time. The duties of a graduate assistant usually involve such activities as classroom instruction, preparation for and supervision of laboratory sections, direction of discussion or recitation sections, grading papers, and research. The student may be required to devote a maximum of twenty hours a week to such work, not more than ten hours of which may be in classroom contact hours. The normal course load for a graduate assistant is six hours per semester.

Graduate assistants receive a stipend of $3,000 to $3,500 for the academic year and remission of tuition and registration fees for the academic year and summer session. Appointments to assistantships are for one year. Renewals must be recommended by the department chair to the dean. Graduate assistantship applications are available on the Web sites of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Feinstein School of Education and Human Development. The application deadline for graduate student assistantships is March 1.