Tutors are also expected to attend staff meetings at the schools in which they are working. The schools may ask tutors to focus their work on certain areas which they perceive as priorities. Tutors are allowed three absences and three sick days per semester. Continued appointment during each semester, as well as receipt of their stipend, assumes satisfactory evaluation of their performance and attendance. Id. Tutors are required to punch time cards, and are entitled to lunch breaks when they work more than five hours on a given day.
Tutors are responsible for being on time and prepared.
Tutors must also attend a seminar which is only open to the tutors. While NYU argues that the existence of this seminar demonstrates that serving as a tutor is part of a student's educational program, it concedes that one of the purposes of the seminar is to make them more effective in their positions as tutors. This is reflected in the application which solicits information about a candidate's previous teaching and tutoring and experience, languages which they speak, and countries and cultures with which the candidate is familiar. The ability to speak foreign languages and familiarity with other cultures are important because of the diverse nature of the student population being served. The range of duties assigned to Graduate Assistants is extremely broad.