Graduate assistantships
July 3, 2019
Graduate students who haven't already signed their fall contracts are asking whether
the hiring freeze applies to them and whether they are going to have jobs in the fall.
Teaching assistantships are funded from their departments allotment from the Chancellor,
so it stands to reason that the likely response for them is "don't count on your TA",
but I don't know if RA's are the same? Many of them are Fund 3, so I suspect they
are going to be fine but I've been wrong before so some clarification would be helpful.
Also, would departments be able to use the TA allotments to just fund 3-credit tuition
scholarships instead of the full 6-9 credits of tuition and insurance required in
a TA? From what I am hearing, students are considering jumping ship, and being able
to offer some form of assistance to those who won't be offered the TA they were counting
on might help take the sting out of it.