Students applying to the program are automatically placed in the pool of applicants considered for teaching assistantships. Teaching assistants work with an appointed professor and duties may include grading, running recitation sections, and lecturing.
Appointments pay a stipends and give full tuition remission with appointments made for one-year.
In addition to helping you to pay for school, being a TA can be very rewarding. Many graduate students are awarded research assistantships for their second year support. This research is generally applied work dealing with natural resource issues in Alaska. Previous topics include visitor willingness to pay for state parks, demand for Halibut sports fishing on the Kenia Peninsula, Reindeer ranching, benefit-cost analysis of endangered species programs, oil and gas policy and many others. There is opportunity for other applied topics as well.