Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) Financial assistance.
(1) The office of
academic affairs (OAA) and/or the graduate school award
teaching and research
assistantships to qualified
graduate students to
render service to the university through undergraduate teaching and research,
respectively. OAA/graduate school funded assistantships are awarded
for up to two years of master's study, up to five years of doctoral degree
study, and up to five years of master's/doctoral degree study. No student
should expect
to receive
a university funded teaching or research assistantship
for more than five years. Individual university units
may fully fund and award administrative
graduate assistantships
to perform
other duties. For
information and/or applications, the student should contact the head of the
department. Tuition scholarships are also available on a limited basis in some
departments.
(2) Section
3345.281 of the Revised Code
requires that each state university establish a program to assess oral English
language proficiency of teaching assistants providing classroom instruction to
students. The university of Akron has adopted such a program, to ensure that
students are not appointed as teaching assistants
until they document oral proficiency
in the
English language . For further
information with regard to this program, applicants are advised to contact the
graduate school of the university of Akron.
(3)
Fellowships
sponsored by
external entities may impact assistantship eligibility,
the number of hours a student can work on an assistantship, and/or the level of
financial assistance a student is eligible to receive. Information on
fellowships can be obtained from
the department
head .
(4)
Financial
assistance through graduate assistantships may impact the level of financial
aid eligibility. Information about student loans and other forms of financial aid can be obtained from
the office of student financial aid.
(B)
Remission
for tuition and fees.
The university shall provide remission
for graduate tuition and
non-resident surcharge,
for up to the amount or number of credits stated on the
assistantship contract
during
each semester of award
period. Remission is
not provided for
audited courses, undergraduate courses,
graduate courses not required for the graduate degree,
repeated courses,
or
any fees.
Teaching and research assistantships
(stipend and/or tuition remission) will not be awarded after the fourteenth day
of any semester.
(C)
Repayment of graduate assistantships
upon resignation.
Recurring payment of an assistantship
stipend will stop upon resignation or termination of an assistantship.
The graduate assistantship
recipient is not required to
repay any tuition remission
if
they
withdraw from all classes at
the time of resignation. However, if they
continue
as an
enrolled graduate student at the university of Akron after resignation from the
assistantship
award, then they must
repay the tuition remission
based on a percentage of the
number of weeks remaining in the semester or summer session.
Examples:
(1) If the
student resigns in the ninth week of a sixteen-week semester, the repayment
will be seven-sixteenths or forty-four per cent of the
tuition
required in that semester.
(2) If
the student resigns in the second week of a five-week summer session, the
repayment will be three-fifths or sixty per cent of the
tuition
required in that summer session.
(D) Important stipulations:
(1) If the graduate
assistantship recipient drops below the minimum
required graduate credits at any time during the contract period
for services, the assistantship is forfeited.
(2) No refunds will be made to any student
for tuition paid
for terms prior to the beginning of the assistantship
.
