GAs also play a central administrative and pedagogical role in connection with clinical and artistic internships and externships. GAs are also assigned to maintain contact with adjunct professors and to follow up on adjuncts' status and contracts. In one department a GA is assigned major responsibility for overseeing the accreditation process. In one program Assistants help coordinate 30 jazz ensembles, serve as liaisons for guest composers, and even function as Director of an NYU company, Village Records. They also have a major role performing editorial and production work, in some cases having primary editorial responsibility for journals and newsletters, including, Middle East Reports, the Waverly Review and Script Magazine.
GAs are also sometimes assigned research functions.