Research and Teaching Asssistantships

Family Social Science offers both research and teaching assistantships. Research and teaching assistantships provide important financial benefits and work experiences for students, but also involve a commitment in terms of time and energy. A 25% assistantship requires 10 hours of work each week, whereas a 50% assistantship requires 20 hours of work each week. The work will vary with the stage in the research process or with the time of the semester in the case of teaching.

Eligibility

You are eligible to hold a graduate assistantship if you are:

• Admitted to a graduate school degree program or a post-baccalaureate professional degree program AND
• Registered for the required minimum number of credits each semester (exception: summer) an assistantship is held.

Finding a graduate assistantship

• Internally posted assistantships may be announced via the graduate student email listserv, or posted on departmental bulletin boards.
• The University Employment System can be searched for open assistantships across the institution.
• Network with current and former professors, colleagues, and departments.

More information about graduate assistantships, including tuition benefits, employment benefits, assistantship listings, and more, can be found at the Office of Human Resources