In the event of employee performance issues, the GA supervisor must work with Employee Relations.

In order to be employed as a Graduate Assistant, the individual must be an active graduate student. The completion date for a graduate student appointed as a GA who submits all degree requirements prior to the end of fall or spring semester will default to the degree conferral date,and the student may complete their appointment as a GA. International graduate students should consult with their Center for International Students & Scholars (CISS) advisor to determine how submitting all final paperwork mid-semester may affect their status. 

Some students, however, may want a completion date that is earlier than the conferral date (for example, they have another job lined up, they must complete their degree by their I-20 end date, etc.). In those cases, students completing prior to the end of the fall or spring semester can request an alternate completion date upon submission of all final paperwork and completion of academic engagement by submitting the Alternate Completion Date Request form to The Graduate School. The Graduate School will coordinate the student’s completion date and payroll termination date to ensure the dates are in alignment and the GA’s tuition waiver remains intact. Payroll should not be adjusted until the Alternate Completion Date Request form has been approved by The Graduate School.

Graduates completing during the summer will have a completion date determined by the submission of their final approved paperwork and/or completion of their enrollment. As students are no longer eligible to work as Graduate Assistants after their completion date, students should coordinate the end date of any summer employment with the submission of their final paperwork and, if applicable, their CISS advisor.

For GAs enrolled in a tuition-based program, a tuition waiver is provided to a GA for the duration of the appointment. If the assistantship is terminated without degree completion within seven days of the date of termination, the student will be responsible for pro-rated tuition according to the Partial Graduate Assistant Tuition Waiver Calculator.