Policies for Teaching Assistants

[Brewer, Michael]

All,

For those of you with graduate programs, do any of you require your teaching assistants (not research assistants, but teaching assistants that are either responsible for an entire course, or who assist a faculty member with the delivery and grading) to do all of their work during set ours and on-site (e.g. between 8-5 and taking place in the department and in class)?  Do any of you schedule/monitor their hours (rather than asking them monitor them themselves, if at all)?

I am curious since, as a TA at two different institutions (many years ago), I never kept track of hours, nor did I have to work all my hours on site (I only had to be on site for class, doing office hours, meeting with faculty supervisors, etc.).

Now, I am in a position to begin employing TAs in the delivery of an online course and my dean (who, as dean of libraries, has not been in a position to oversee teaching faculty before) is wary of allowing TAs to work on these more flexible terms (since in the libraries we have always used research assistants that have to be on site to interact with library faculty and staff).

It is my sense that it is the norm for TAs to have this kind of flexible work schedule and would like to  see if that assumption is correct.

If you do NOT allow your TAs this kind of flexibility (of schedule and location), please let me know.

Thanks,

Michael Brewer

Michael Brewer
University of Arizona Library, A122
P.O. Box 210055
Tucson, AZ  85721-0055
Tel: (520) 307-2771
Fax: (520) 626-7444
brewerm at u.library.arizona.edu<mailto:brewerm at u.library.arizona.edu>


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