Checks are issued at bi-weekly intervals with students normally receiving eight checks each semester. Receipt of the initial check is dependent upon when the student signs necessary tax forms in the appropriate college dean s office. Assistants are required to sign the bi-weekly time sheet in the assigned department. Failure to do so will result in the student having to sign for and pick-up the check in the Payroll Office located on the ground floor of Wetherby Administration Building. A Handbook for University Life.
Students are responsible for meeting academic requirements in their respective degree programs.
Students are responsible for meeting the assistantship responsibilities as outlined in the letter of appointment. Graduate assistants must attend orientations conducted by Graduate Studies, the academic college, or the department, and must participate in departmental training activities. The graduate assistant assumes responsibility to notify the supervisor if the term of appointment can not be completed. When termination occurs prior to the end of the appointment period, the final check will be prorated according to the number of days of service. If an assistant is terminated before the previously designated date of the assistantship, whether because of funding problems or because of the inability of the assistant to perform duties adequately, the graduate assistant will be notified by letter no later than two weeks prior to termination.