There will be several Grader/Lab Instructor positions in the department this coming Spring. These positions pay between $3200 and $4500 (depending on duties and status) and enable the recipient to receive a tuition waiver on some (M.S. Students) or all (Ph.D. Students) of their tuition.
Recipients are expected to be on campus, ready to assume their duties up to a week before the start of the semester, Saturday, January 12, 2013.
Recipients of Lab Instructor positions who have not been certified as completing the GTA Institue must be on campus in time to take the GTAI. That date has not yet been set but will probably be the first or second Thursday of January.
The SPEAK test is a prerequisite for the GTA Institute for non-native speakers of English. It is generally given shortly before the GTA course and also near the end of each semester. It is your responsibility to check with Dr. Levinstein about signing up.
Recipients who arrive late may find their awards reduced or recinded. Lab instructors will not be employed unless they have been certified as completing the GTA training.
Preference will be given to students who have taught laboratory sections or graded for this department in Fall 2012 and given satisfactory performance. Preference will also be given to students who have passed the SPEAK test and/or completed the GTA training. Students with high grade point averages will be given preference over those with low. PhD students must be making satisfactory progress toward their degrees.
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Since a lack of budgetary information as well as other uncertainties, make it difficult to predict how many positions we have, notification of awards will extend from November 15 through January 10.