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   DO NOT BECOME GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANTS

 WHAT THEY DO 

   Assist department chairperson, faculty members, or other professional staff members in college or university by performing teaching or teaching-related duties, such as teaching lower level courses, developing teaching materials, preparing and giving examinations, and grading examinations or papers. Graduate assistants must be enrolled in a graduate school program. Graduate assistants who primarily perform non-teaching duties, such as laboratory research, should be reported in the occupational category related to the work performed.

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Letters: U-M regents misguided on union for graduate student research assistants
Against the advice of University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman and many deans, faculty and graduate students, the regents voted on May 19 in a 6-2 decision to define graduate student research assistants (GSRAs) as public employees, paving the way toward expanding the Graduate Employee Organization union that now represents graduate teaching instructors (GSIs), to include GSRAs as well.
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Teaching Assistants at University of Toronto set strike deadline
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Jan. 31, 2012) - Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 3902, the union representing all 4,200 teaching assistants, graduate-student instructors, lab demonstrators, invigilators and writing instructors at the three University of Toronto campuses, have rejected the tentative agreement reached by the Union and the University during conciliation. At ...
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Graduated withholding rate may aid UI grad assistants
URBANA — A new graduated withholding rate could help several hundred University of Illinois graduate assistants who are taxed on their tuition waivers, the UI says. Meanwhile, new figures show the university paid more than $1.4 million in back taxes that it failed to charge the graduate assistants from 2003 through 2010. read more
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U of T teaching assistants set strike deadline
The union says its issues are tutorial and lab sizes, research support and pay rates.
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Frank visits his alma matter
Presidential Finalist and UNM alum Robert Frank said Monday that he supports living wages for graduate and teaching assistants, even though he refused to support collective bargaining for graduate assistantships at Kent State University, where he is provost.
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Workshop lays out benefits of Web design, skills
As part of an ongoing series of computer workshops, graduate students and professors learned the basics of web design and the importance of computer skills in the classroom and the job market Wednesda
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Arkansas linebackers coach hired at UAB
Arkansas linebackers coach Reggie Johnson, and graduate assistants Richard Owens and Brandon Sharp will join the coaching staff at Alabama-Birmingham, where former Razorbacks offensive coordinator Garrick McGee was hired as head coach last month.
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Making themselves feel at home
KUALA TERENGGANU: Small things such as hot toasts can be important when one is thousands of miles from home.
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University of Michigan grad student says she lost her job over union effort
A University of Michigan graduate student claims she lost her job after supporting efforts to unionize graduate student research assistants. Jennifer Dibbern came to UM from M.I.T in 2007. She said her path to a doctorate was smooth sailing, teaching and working as a researcher in engineering. But at the end of last year, she said, she started supporting unionizing the graduate student research ...
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Lessons from America — thanks to ETA 17
JOHOR BARU: New Yorker Ashley Watson is looking forward to calling Batu Pahat her new home for the next 10 months.
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