[Cce-faculty-list] Grad Assistantship Policies

[Abraham, Dulcy M]

Dear Colleagues,

Reminder about Graduate Assistantship Policies

** Per the Graduate Student Employment Manual (https://www.purdue.edu/academics/ogsps/documents/gpo/graduate-student-employment-manual.pdf)


  *   The salary is intended to provide renumeration for what is typically a half-time (.50 FTE) assistantship, which is generally equivalent to 20 hours a week on average.


  *   Students who receive true fellowships (fellowships not administered as assistantships) are not employees and are not obligated to provide services to the University. (This includes students with Goldberg and Corning Fellowships)


  *   When classes are in session, F-1 and J-1 international students are limited by law to working a total of twenty (20) hours per week (i.e., 0.50 FTE).


  *   During any academic session, an individual must be enrolled as a student in a residential, non-professional, graduate degree or teacher license program and be registered for at least three credit hours of graduate-level course and/or research work to qualify for a graduate staff appointment. Graduate staff on appointment during the summer are required to register for a minimum of three graduate credit hours during at least one of the summer modules.


  *   Graduate staff members cannot receive payment from Purdue University and another employer for work, vacation, or other paid leave during the same pay period. Graduate staff members should schedule work and paid leave carefully to avoid the prospect of double payment, which could violate University policy and jeopardize visa eligibility.

** Per the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering Burke Graduate Program Handbook (https://engineering.purdue.edu/CCE/Academics/Graduate/Current/Handbook):


  *   In all instances, the duties of the assistant must be fairly and equitably assigned, and the demands placed upon the assistant must not be unreasonable. The generally accepted measure for setting graduate assistant assigned workloads is time. As in other major research universities, Purdue assumes that a half-time appointment entails 20 hours of service per week.  There is the expectation that a master's student receiving funding as a research assistant will complete a thesis, unless other arrangements have been made with the student's advisor.


  *   Typical Teaching Assistant duties include class or lab preparation time, laboratory contact (lectures and non-lecture), office hours for student contact, grading homework assignments, grading lab reports, and consultation with supervising staff member. However, duties do vary with every course and faculty member.  Duties and expectations of a Research Assistant are specified by the respective advisor.


  *   If a student has been reported for academic dishonesty and has had action taken by the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities (OSRR), he/she cannot serve as a TA until he/she has completed all remediation requirements from OSRR and is no longer on probation. The student would also not be eligible for any other types of funds provided/administered by the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering (including, but not limited to: professional development or travel grants, CoE awards, research, service or teaching awards)


  *   Students registering as Exam or Degree Only are not eligible to be funded on an assistantship.

Please let me know if you have questions/comments about these policies, or if they need to be discussed in the CE Grad Committee/by LSCCE Faculty.

Best wishes
Dulcy.


Dulcy M. Abraham
Chair, Burke CE Grad Program
Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering

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