Ready to begin your journey?\u00a0 Apply<\/a> to our program.<\/p>\n\n The Sociology Department is typically funded to offer 7-10 students graduate assistantships (GAs) each year. Assistantships, which are primarily for new students both, are awarded on a twenty-hour or ten-hour basis.<\/p>\n Some assistantships for continuing students may be available. In-state and out-of-state tuition waivers are also available on a limited basis.<\/p>\n Tuition discounts are also available through the Western Regional Graduate Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n An award of an assistantship includes a waiver of the out-of-state portion of tuition. You would still be responsible for paying the in-state tuition, but at a discounted rate. All graduate assistants also receive a yearly stipend, paid bi-weekly, to help fund their education.<\/p>\n We offer, on a competitive basis, the following funding opportunities:<\/p>\n 20-hour Graduate Assistantship (includes a stipend, full tuition waiver, and health care insurance)<\/p>\n 10-hour Graduate Assistantship (includes a stipend and 50% tuition waiver)<\/p>\n In-state and out-of-state tuition waivers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n In order to maximize the number of students we can support, the department typically awards more ten-hour assistantships than twenty- hour assistantships.<\/p>\n We try to match the interests of the assistants with those of faculty members. The work assigned to graduate assistants varies greatly; faculty may need a GA for:<\/p>\n An assistantship contract is awarded for one year only. If funds are available, it is the department’s philosophy to recommend renewal of this contract for a second year. This recommendation for renewal presumes an assessment by the Committee on Graduate Studies that the student is making satisfactory progress in the program and has been responsible in carrying out assistantship duties in the first year. Initial decisions on the award of assistantships (both for first year awards and renewals) will normally be made at the time of admissions for the following academic year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n If you receive a graduate assistantship, you are required to:<\/p>\n See the Graduate Assistant Policy Handbook for more details.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n The Graduate Coordinator determines your assignment and will contact you regarding your assignment no later than the week before classes for each term. Be sure to contact the faculty member to whom you’ve been assigned immediately, so that you can begin the work. You will receive notification of who you are assigned to work with during the first week in August.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n You’ll notice that the expectations vary from professor to professor, depending on the demands upon the professor that semester. Keep a log if you think you are working more than your 10 or 20 hours per week.<\/p>\n Your graduate assistant assignment the next semester will likely be different—a different class, professor, or project. Over time, the quantity and quality of the workload evens out because of different assignments.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n Generally, the hours required vary from week to week, and month to month. For example, when assisting with teaching, after assignments come due there is a focused effort to grade, record, and return the assignments to students as soon as possible. You may also:<\/p>\n This depends on your background, the class, and the professor’s needs. Research assistance tends to vary as well, but more according to any deadlines that the project must meet. At the end of the semester, you should check into end of semester grading or other deadlines with your professor before you make your travel plans for the holidays.<\/p>\n Professors are generally responsive to necessary absences or to a due date for a graduate class, and will lighten up your load that week if they possibly can. Faculty members are also generally receptive to personal requests for experiences—such as opportunities to:<\/p>\n Graduate assistantships, typically in student services, are available outside of the department.<\/p>\n Like graduate assistantships through the Department of Sociology, these assistantships include a health insurance premium (for 20-hour assistantships), stipend, and tuition benefit.<\/p>\n However, most of these positions will require a separate application. Other graduate assistantship positions may be advertised through the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies and\/or on Handshake, the university’s employment database.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n\n \nFunding Opportunities Accordion Closed<\/span><\/h4>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n
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