GAs serve in administrative support positions in academic and administrative units.
In a university budget, most revenues may be spent only for the restricted purposes for which they were designated. Various sources of revenue support graduate assistant stipends. TA stipends are paid from the instructional budgets of academic units, which are derived largely from state appropriations and tuition income. RA stipends are usually paid from the grants that support the individual research projects on which the RAs are appointed. GA stipends are paid from the operating budgets of the units in which the GAs are appointed.