Academic Personnel
Appointment of Undergraduate GSIs in the College of Letters & Science
Occasionally, departments in the College of Letters & Science may have
a shortage of applicants for Graduate Student Instructor positions. Undergraduates
may be proposed for GSI positions under exceptional circumstances, but only
if no qualified graduate student from the appointing department or from other
departments is available.
To be proposed for appointments as GSIs, undergraduate candidates must:
- be registered in the semester in which they are teaching;
- be enrolled in no fewer than eight units of course work;
- have upper division status when they begin teaching;
- have an overall GPA of 3.1 or higher; and
- have taken the course for which they are being appointed, its equivalent,
or a more
advanced course, and have received for that course a grade of A- or better.
Like graduate student GSI appointees, undergraduate appointees who do not
speak English as a native language must satisfy the English Language Proficiency
requirement before they can teach. For details on this requirement, contact
the GSI Teaching &
Resource Center (2-4456).
During the semester in which they are teaching, undergraduate GSIs must be
enrolled in a 300-level course or the equivalent in the department in which
they are teaching, for purposes of training.
For each undergraduate student appointee proposed, please download a PDF
version of the Undergraduate GSI Appointment Form. Complete the form,
have it verified, and send it to the L&S Deans' Office, 201 Campbell Hall,
MC 2920. After you have received an approval, you should either prepare the transaction
form to Data Services, or, if you are on line, you may enter the information
into HRMS.
If you have any questions, please contact your divisional Coordinator of Administration.
