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Graduate Assistantships

Full-time students (those registered for 12 or more credits) are eligible to participate in the Graduate Assistantship Program. Students working for a faculty member as a research assistant or for an administrator performing clerical duties receive partial tuition payment in exchange for their work. The assistantships are either 150 hours (10 hours per week, per term) or 300 hours (20 hours per week, per term). During their MBA studies, full-time students can participate in a maximum of three, 300-hour or six, 150-hour assignments, or receive no more that $21,060 in tuition remission.

The following graph illustrates the value of the graduate assistantship for the 2007-2008 academic year:

Graduate Assistantship Program Fall 2007 to Summer 2008

Process

• Student must complete the graduate assistant application (available at the Admissions Office) and include a resume.
• Applications are then made available to faculty and administrators who choose the students they want to interview from the applicant pool.
• Assistantships are assigned based on the specific needs of the faculty member or administrator. The Admissions Office does not make placement decisions.
• Once an assistantship is granted the total tuition remission is posted directly to a student’s account and deducted, by the Office of Enrollment Services, from the overall cost of tuition for the term worked, if the student is working for a faculty member. However, if a student works for an administrator the tuition remission posted for the 150-hour assistantship and 300-hour assistantship are $2497.50 and $4995.00 respectively. Tax law states that tuition credit for administrative services is subject to federal tax. Therefore, the administrative work is divided into two categories: taxable income and scholarship. The remaining portion for the time worked is paid to the student at $6.75 per hour on a bi-weekly basis.