Departmental Financial
Aid
The Department provides financial assistance for
its graduate students primarily in the form of
Assistantships. There are three types:
1. Graduate Assistant: This is a broadly defined
designation that permits assignment to any departmental
responsibility, except that of principal instructor
of a class.
2. Graduate Teaching Assistant: A GTA need not
be involved in actual teaching but may be assigned
any appropriate duty related to responsibilities
of the department. However, any student responsible
for a class or section of a class, according to
the registrar's records, must be categorized as
GTA.
3. Graduate Research Assistant: These are provided
from internally or externally funded research sources.
Students designated as GRA are assigned primarily
to research-related tasks and operate under direction
of their respective research project leaders.
Assistantships in Human Development fall into
five primary task categories:
- classroom instruction of undergraduate courses
- teaching in the Child Development Laboratories
- assisting in the Adult Day Services
- research
- general assistance to the faculty
Hours of assistantship vary from five to twenty in increments of five, permitting
the Department to meet its responsibilities and offer aid to the greatest number
of students. To be eligible for an assistantship, a student must be admitted
to the Graduate School on a "regular" full-time basis. To retain
eligibility, a student must maintain a quality credit average of 3.0 or higher
and to make satisfactory progress toward completion of degree requirements. Assistantships
carry with them tuition scholarships proportional to the number of hours worked.
Twenty hour Assistantships carry full tuition scholarships; 15 hour, 3/4; and
10 hour, 1/2.
