• All graduate students are able to work up to 100% effort during the 3 month summer session.
• RAs and TAs are not required to take summer courses, as long as the student is enrolled in the prior spring or upcoming fall semester.
  

• If a student's summer stipend is being paid off of Graduate College Block Funds, s/he must be enrolled in summer courses.  

• Summer TAs are managed through Doug Lee, Director,Center for Continuing Education and Programs.
• There are specific summer session appointment forms that have been created. These forms do not get routed through CLAS.
• There is no specific template for summer TA offer letters. Departments can modify CLAS template for summer session appointments.
• Specific language that should be included in summer TA letters "this offer is contingent on the course meeting the enrollment requirement".
• The letter outlining summer session budget will come out in late fall.
• Sample Summer Budget Letter

Summer Salary Minimums

These guidelines are for teaching assistants with sole responsibility for one or two summer courses, and are based on the 2001-2002 minimum salary rates in the UE/COGS collective bargaining agreement

• One Course = 2/9 of a 50% academic year appointment
• Two Courses = 2/9 of a 100% academic year appointment
• For those Teaching Assistants that do not have sole responsibility for teaching a course, employing units may use their discretion and appoint at percentage levels that more accurately reflect the duty effort.
• Note that the rates specified here are minimums, and units may choose to exceed them to reflect variations in effort. Where a department paid a GA more than the minimum salary during the academic year, the salary for the summer session must (proportionately) meet or exceed that amount.
  

  Session I: (3-week session, 1 course)

  • Total compensation = 2/9 of 50% academic year appointment or
    2/9 * $14,718 = $3,271.00, to be paid June 1.
• Because the effort is compressed into a 3-week period, all of the compensation will be paid in one lump sum. Enter 100% of the compensation in the "Remarks/Payment Schedule" field of the appointment form for the June 1 paycheck.

Session II (8-week session) and Session III (6-week session)

• One Course (2/9 of 50% Appt.): Two Courses (2/9 of 100% Appt.):
  July: $1635 July: $3270
  August: $1635 August: $3270
  Total: $3,271.00 Total: $6,542.00
• For Sessions II and III, enter the payment dates and the amounts (50% of the total salary on July 1 and the other 50% on August 1) in the "Remarks/Payment Schedule" field of the appointment form.