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• Graduate School's page on Student Employment: categories, eligibility, duties, and other requirements

TA Assignment Policy

The TA assignment policy is under College of Education purview, effective Fall 2021.

TA hiring process:

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• Students must fill out the EDP TA Application online in order to be eligible for a TA position in an upcoming semester. Students are sent a reminder and link to the application prior to each semester.
• The EDP Executive Assistant compiles applications into a spreadsheet, and sends instructors the link along with The EDP Leadership Team and Administrative Manager determine individual TA allocations each semester based on the College of Education TA Assignment Policy. 
• Prior to each semester, the EDP Administrative Manager:
  • Emails EDP students once the Course Schedule is published by the Registrar for an upcoming semester, to remind them to reach out to instructors if interested in serving as TA on a course.
  • Emails instructors with their approved TA allotment (# of TA hours assigned per course)
  to review
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• Instructors reply to the Executive Assistant Administrative Manager with their top candidates from the list, specifying course.
• EDP Leadership Team reviews TA requests and makes assignments.
• Executive Assistant will confirm instructor TA assignments and hiring instructions via email.

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• assigned TA, including the EDP TA Agreement (signed by instructor and student).

Hiring a Student Employee

Faculty who have received a notification email from the EDP Executive Assistant Administrative Manager regarding permission to hire a student employee must submit the name and EID of the student, as well as the details of their assignment (e.g. which course or research project the student will be working on) to the EA Admin Manager by the deadline requested. The student and faculty should carefully review the the UT graduate student employment criteria to ensure student meets all UT and Graduate School hiring criteria.

A signed Agreement Form must also be submitted prior to start of employment:

• TA Agreement Form
• GRA Agreement Form

Performance Evaluations

University policy requires that graduate student employees work employees work under the supervision of a regular faculty member, who must file a written evaluation of the student's work performance with the Department Chair at the close of each semester. EDP Executive Assistant Administrative Manager will send evaluation links to faculty supervisors near the end of each semester.  Completed Completed evaluations are kept on file digitally in UT Box.

Additionally, EDP TAs with official appointments will be evaluated via TA-specific questions on Course Evaluations.