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Teaching Assistantships

Teaching Assistantships (“TAships”) are Academic Student Employee positions reserved for current enrolled students. All TAships are awarded as a percent of full-time, with 50% TAships being the most common: the percentage refers to the percent of a full-time 40-hour week worked, meaning a 50% TAship would average to 20 hours per week for the length of the appointment.

Fee Remission

Pursuant to Article 11 of the ASE employment contract –eligible graduate student employees appointed at 25% or greater are entitled to 100% remission of tuition and eligible fees charged. The fees included in the fee remission are the: (1) Student Services Fee, (2) premium for the Student Health Insurance Program (SHIP), and (3) 100% partial fee remission toward campus fees as set forth in the collective bargaining agreement. UC will cover Nonresident Supplemental Tuition for up to three (3) years for eligible ASEs employed at 25% or greater who have advanced to candidacy in their degree program.

TAships in the College

The eight graduate groups in the College of Biological Sciences do not award or have access to teaching assistantships; these are awarded by individual academic departments. CBS students seeking TAships are encouraged to approach any department they feel qualified to TA for.

TA Jobs by Department

TAships are awarded by individual academic departments according to their own procedures for recruiting and hiring TAs. Students in any program are authorized to serve as a TA for any department.

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Chemistry

Contact [email protected] with questions. 

TA In Chemistry
Environmental Science and Policy

Applications accepted on a rolling basis. 

TA in Environmental Science and Policy
Evolution and Ecology

Priority deadline of May 31 for upcoming academic year. CBS TA Application. 

TA In Evolution and Ecology
Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies

Priority deadline of April 30 for upcoming academic year. Apply on Handshake.

Department website
Study of Religion
Spanish
German
French

Priority deadline of April 30 for upcoming academic year. Apply on Handshake.

Department websites
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

Applications accepted on a rolling basis. CBS TA Application.

Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Molecular and Cellular Biology

Applications accepted on a rolling basis. CBS TA Application.

Molecular and Cellular Biology TA Portal
Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior 

Applications accepted on a rolling basis. CBS TA Application.

Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
Plant Biology

Contact individual course instructors to express interest.

Department website
Nutrition

Priority deadline of May 31 for upcoming academic year. 

TA in Nutrition
Plant Sciences

Contact department for information: [email protected]

Department website
Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

Applications accepted on a rolling basis. 

Department website