Graduate Student Appointments:
Processing Appointments for Graduate Student Assistants
MEMO TO: Units Appointing GSIs, GSSAs and GSRAs
FROM: Academic Human Resources
SUBJECT: 2009-2010 Minimum Rates for Graduate Student Assistants
DATE: July 2, 2009
Graduate Student Research Assistants
Effective September 1,2009, the minimum full-time equivalent stipend rate for tour (4) calendar months for Graduate Student Research Assistants (GSRA's) on the Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses will be $16,627 per term. This rate includes an increment intended to assure competitiveness of graduate student stipends vis-a-vis those offered at peer institutions nationwide. Departments and principal investigators will continue to have the flexibility to set GSRA stipends at rates above this minimum. As in the past, GSRA's with a 25% or greater appointment fraction will pay no tuition (i.e. 100% tuition waiver).
GSRA stipend rates at the UM-Flint campus vary from those in Ann Arbor and Dearborn. Information on 2009-2010 full-time rates is not yet available at this time. Contact University Human Resources at the Flint campus (810-762-3150) for up to date information.
Graduate Student Instructors and Graduate Student Staff Assistants
Effective on September 1, 2009, the minimum full-time equivalent (FTE) salary rate for four (4) calendar months for Graduate Student Instructors (GSl's) and Graduate Student Staff Assistants (GSSA's) will be $16,694 per tenn. This reflects the GEO contract-required 3% increase in full time rate, as well as an increment intended to assure the competitiveness of graduate student stipends vis-a-vis those offered at peer institutions nationwide.
A rate schedule illustrating the impact of these rate changes for GSI's and GSSA's at various fractions of effort is attached and will soon be posted on the AHR website.
Questions about this memo, the attached infonnation, or GEO contract administration can be directed to Academic Human Resources (763-8938). Questions about appointment processing should be directed to the HRIPayroll Service Center (615-2000).