Employment
Teaching Assistants and Graduate Student Researchers
Graduate students may be appointed during the academic year for a maximum of 50 percent time (twenty hours per week) as teaching assistants or graduate student researchers. These appointments are awarded primarily by the student's major department. Teaching assistantships are also awarded by the Department of Linguistics to speakers of French, German, Italian, or Spanish to conduct conversational sections in the undergraduate language teaching program. Teaching assistants appointed 25 percent time or more for the quarter receive payment of the graduate student health insurance premium and partial fee remission but not payment of nonresident tuition.
Additional fee supplements and/or tuition scholarships may be provided by the student's major department. Entering graduate students who are appointed as graduate student researchers are eligible for payment of tuition and/or fees if they have a minimum 25 percent appointment (or the dollar equivalent) for the entire quarter for which fees are paid, and have an appointment effective with the first week of instruction in the quarter for which tuition and fees are paid.
All graduate students who are U.S. citizens and appointed as teaching assistants or graduate student researchers or are employed by the university in other positions are required by the California Constitution to sign the State Oath of Allegiance. In addition, all graduate student appointees and employees are required by university policy to sign the university's Patent Agreement. Copies of both documents may be obtained from the student's academic department.
Graduate students appointed as teaching assistants and other instructional titles are members of a collective bargaining unit and as such are subject to payment of an agency fee to their exclusive bargaining agent.
Non-Academic Employment
Students interested in non-academic positions on campus or those interested in off-campus employment should use Port Triton, a site maintained by UCSD Career Services Center.
