Assistantships

What is a Graduate Assistantship?

Compensation

Application Process

Application

Rules

Position Announcements

What is a Graduate Assistantship?

Graduate Assistants are students that have been accepted into a Master's program at SUNY Cortland and are given the opportunity to work within an academic department or other units on campus. There are a large number of departments within the SUNY Cortland community that offer these great opportunities.

Graduate Assistantships may take two forms:

1. Research - some students may be assigned primary research responsibilities for a specific project or program.

2. Teaching - some students may be assigned teaching responsibilities or other instructor tasks as assigned by a faculty supervisor.

3. Athletics - some students may be assigned coaching responsibilities for various athletic teams.

4. Offices - some students may be assigned responsibilities in offices of various departments including Graduate Studies, Sponsored Programs, ASAP or Institutional Research.

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Compensation

Graduate Assistantships typically provide a maximum of 6 credit hours of tuition per semester coupled with an academic year stipend averaging between $5,000 - $7,000 for a maximum of 20 hours per week for the academic year. Out-of-state graduate students who have Graduate Assistantships will not be responsible for paying the difference between resident and non-resident tuition for the six credit hours. Graduate students who do not receive a stipend work approximately 10 hours per week while class is in session.

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Application Process

Applicants must be accepted into a degree program before they can apply for any Graduate Assistantship.

Assistantship applications will be solicited for the 2010 - 2011 school year only in April.  Positions will be posted in March and applications will be accepted at the beginning of April and will continue to be accepted until all the positions are filled.

Applicants are responsible for making sure required recommendations are submitted with their applications. Incomplete applications will not be processed. A separate application for each position is required.

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Graduate Assistantship Application

The application for the 2010 - 2011 school year will be available at this web site in late March.  You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to access these files. If you are visually impaired and using a screen reader, you may need to download the latest Acrobat Reader.

If you are unable to access the information, please phone the Graduate Studies office at (607) 753-4800 to request a printed version of the forms.

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Rules

-Graduate Assistants who receive a stipend as well as tuition support can be offered additional work up to 1 to 2 hours per week while class is in session through temporary payroll service.
-Graduate Assistants who receive tuition support only can be offered additional work up to 10 hours per week while class is in session through temporary payroll service.
-All Graduate Assistants can be offered additional work without limitations during the summer and winter intercessions.
-Graduate Assistants may assist faculty with classes and may teach laboratory sections but are not permitted to teach classes.

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Graduate Assistantship Position Announcements

Assistantship positions for the 2010 - 2011 school year will be posted in mid-March 2010.