Hiring TAs and Readers
Teaching Assistants (TAs)
Procedure:
- Departments select the TAs and place them in classes based on enrollment, instructor needs, pedagogy, and other factors. Departments send that information to Summer Session and we hire and pay.
- A request for a 100 hour TA should be made to your Department Manager.
- A TA can work a total of 2 TAships (200 hours) per summer.
- A TA's pay is $3038 for 100 hours
Timing:
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Enrollment reports are pulled May 31. TA allocations are handed to each department on June 1. The number is based on total student enrollment in departments' classes divided by 44.
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That number will be the TAs allocated to the department. Departmental administration provides appointments to Summer Session the first week of June.
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See Department and Divisional TA Allocation from 2012 to 2015 for reference.
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You will know if your course has a TA in the first week of June (if not sooner).
TA Mandatory Activities
| Reading required texts for class | Attending class |
| Preparing for section or lab | Teaching section or lab |
| Holding office hours | Cleaning up lab |
| Evaluating student work |
TA Optional Activities
| Preparing Assignments | Consulting with instructor |
| Running course-related errands (such as photocopying) | Previewing films |
| Interviewing guest speakers | Grading exams |
Resource: See the Graduate Division's TA Handbook for more information.
Readers
After TAs are assigned, courses without a TA that have 25+ students can request a Reader. Readers are hired to read papers and grade homework/examinations.
Procedure:
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Consider how much the reader will work - submit that tally to Summer Session and we will pay the reader for those exact hours.
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A reader can work a maximum of 100 hours. A request of 40-60 hours is typical. There are no timesheets via Summer Session - we pay them for the hours they are hired to work.
- a Reader's pay rate is $15.32 an hour
Timing:
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We will send out a Call for Reader Requests the second week of June, after TAs are allocated.
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Reader requests are due June 15 for all summer courses.
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We do not have a pool of hired readers like the academic departments do. We cannot hire last-minute readers for specific assignments - each reader is hired individually so we need their contracts before the course begins.