Graduate students should not be assigned to graduate assistantships that generate conflicts of interest. Graduate students may not teach any course at the 500-level or higher.  

A student pursuing a graduate degree at this institution may not be appointed as a member of the General Faculty, except under both of the following conditions:

• the appointment begins in the same semester that the degree is awarded.
• the conditions of employment are approved by the Graduate School, the Department Head and Unit Dean, of the program in which the student is pursuing a degree, and the employing academic Department Head and Unit Dean, if appropriate.

Graduate students should not be assigned as an instructional assistant for any course at the 500-level or higher. In these situations, the Graduate Program Director must file the Conflict of Interest Form with the Graduate School for evaluation.

Graduate students normally do not teach other graduate students from the same academic program. However, there are times when a graduate student must enroll in an undergraduate pre-requisite course with another graduate student serving as Instructor of Record. In these situations, the Graduate Program Director must file the Conflict of Interest Form with the Graduate School for evaluation. In such cases, a full-time faculty member must be designated as the graduate student’s teaching supervisor and be responsible for grading the graduate student’s work.