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Re: Grad Students -- where do they come from?
The School of Business and Public Management at George Washington funds a
GTA to work 20 hours per week in the WC. It's a great package, including
tuition waiver, stipend, and salary. So it's a competitive position and
we interview candidates. We select a person with interest and experience
that will fare well in the WC. We're working on other schools to fund
similar positions to handle the high volume of certain disciplines. The
tutor works with all students, not just business students, but the
students and faculty appreciate the availability of someone with specific
expertise.
I'm interested in what goes on at other Centers.
Best, Evelyn Schreiber
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Rob Russell wrote:
> Just a question to provoke discussion (based entirely on my own
> curiousity): Do any of your WC's employ graduate assistants who are
> NOT working on MA's/PhD's in English? If so, what departments do you
> recruit from? If not, would you have any problem with doing so?
>
> I've been thinking about this lately because of a personnel issue: I
> requested the addition of another GA to our staff, and the request
> was granted by my VP: one of the first-year English MA's will be
> ASSIGNED to work for me. In the past, the center has recruited its
> own GA's and used its own budget to pay them, and these GA's haven't
> come strictly from the English Dept.: I've been particularly pleased
> with my experiences with GA's working on M.Ed's (w/BA's in English,
> however) in elementary and secondary ed. It's worked out well, and I
> haven't been forced to work with GA's who don't care anything about
> tutoring/teaching writing (in any class of English MA's, there are
> likely to be a few of these).
>
> I would really like to hear from those of you with similar
> situations/experiences.
> _______________________________________________
> Robert A. Russell
> Director, Writing and Communication Center
> East Tennessee State University
> Box 70602
> Johnson City, TN 37614
> Phone: (423) 439-8438
> russellr@access.etsu-tn.edu
> http://www.etsu.edu/wcc
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