AI Info | Graduate Studies
Contracts
Contracts must be signed before your first day of classes. Stipulated in your contract is the required AI training session, the course(s) you will be assigned to teach, your pay amount, the length of the contract, etc.
Paychecks
Paychecks are automatically deposited into your personal checking account. Your first paycheck will be available September 15. Your stipend is taxable income.
Fee Scholarships/Remissions
Fee scholarships are normally attached to the award of an assistantship. Fee remissions differ from fee scholarships in that they are considered taxable income. Your contract will indicate if you have a fee remission. Appointees with a fee scholarship/remission for 2 semesters in the same academic year are usually eligible for 6 credit hours for the 2 summer sessions, not to exceed a total of 30 credit hours in the fee scholarship for the entire academic year. See the Departmental Graduate Secretary.
Rosters
Rosters are available to instructors on line. Information on retrieving these will be available to you. Be sure to pick this up, as you will need it when making decisions about whether a student may add the course, to see if there is room.
After the first day or so of the semester, the Registrar also prints out class rosters, with the names, class standings, and identification numbers of each of your students. They will be distributed in your AI mailbox, located in the History of Art office. After drop/add, another roster will be placed in your file with the most up-to-date records, including any drop/add transactions. You may access your roster online at any time during the semester for updates.
Near the end of the semester, grades will be entered electronically through Oncourse. To better assist you, the Office of the Registrar is available to answer grade issues and specific questions.
Telephone: 812-855-0121
Visit their website at http://registrar.indiana.edu/finalgrades.html.
Change of Grades, Incomplete, etc.
A student may make up an Incomplete from a previous semester by attending your class. This may be done with your permission only after you discuss the request with the instructor in charge of the course. Or, a student may have received an incomplete from you during a previous semester, and finishes it up while you are still here. In either case, when the coursework has been completed, you may fill out a Removal of Incomplete form, available from the Departmental Graduate Secretary in the History of Art office.
Be sure to have the student's name, student I.D. number, the course section number (the original course in which the student received the incomplete), and the semester of the original course. Due to University policy, you must fill this form out in the office; we cannot let you take it with you. You should be aware, however, that because graduate associate instructors are transitory, the use of incompletes is discouraged! Incompletes should be given only for medical reasons, psychological reasons, personal trauma of severe proportions, etc. Should an incomplete be required, be sure to document completely the course work to date for the student, and give it to the faculty head for the course.
Change of grades can be made at your discretion. This form is used when a student received an actual letter grade that was inappropriate for some reason. These forms are available in the Art History office 132, and must get the approval of the Chair of the department, and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Once again, be sure to have the student and course information with you.
