Flexible Graduate Assistantship Program

The Graduate School allocates a pool of 15 supplemental graduate assistantships every two years on a competitive basis. Criteria for evaluation are given below. Departments are responsible for submitting a prioritized list to the Graduate School in early March, after the Graduate School requests the information.

Silvia Popa, Mathematics

The criteria for these Graduate Assistantships are:

Program quality.
Current and proposed graduate assistantship utilization and expectations.
Program capacity and graduate assistantship need.
Applicant quantity and quality.
Contribution to fulfilling the directives of the current Academic Plan.
Student mentoring guidelines.
Recruiting plan.

Contributing to the strengthening research and to enhancing the doctoral component of the graduate enterprise also will be evaluation metrics. Utilization plans for the assistantships must balance a meaningful teaching experience with a research component. Units who have received a competitive assistantship in the past from this program are eligible to apply, however, they should specifically describe the accomplishments of the past assistantship.