Academic Student Employee Recruitment (Unit 11)

Academic Student Employees (ASE) are Teaching Associates (TA), Graduate Assistants (GA), and Instructional Student Assistants (ISA) that are hired by campus departments, or hiring units, to perform a variety of tasks such as teaching, grading, and tutoring. 

Key features of each classification type are highlighted below: 

Instructional Student Assistants: 

• Primary responsibilities include teaching, grading, or tutoring.
• Must be registered and enrolled as a stateside Humboldt student (undergraduate or graduate).

Graduate Assistants:

• Primary responsibilities include supervising students in a classroom, workshop or lab; training students to use equipment; assisting faculty with research and preparation of course materials; participating the evaluation of student’s work; and/or tutoring.
• Must be registered in a master’s degree program at Cal Poly Humboldt.
• May only work in departments/fields related to degree program in which enrolled

Teaching Associates: 

• Primary responsibility is teaching – classroom or laboratory instruction
• Must be registered in a Master’s degree program at Cal Poly Humboldt.
• May only teach in the department of the degree program in which enrolled. Students enrolled in     interdisciplinary degree programs may teach for departments that comprise     their interdisciplinary program