Academic Personnel
Termination of Graduate Assistant Appointments
A graduate assistant may be terminated under the following conditions:
- The student fails to maintain graduate student eligibility—i.e., GPA, required course load per FTE level, or progress toward degree.
- The student fails to perform required job duties or responsibilities (evaluation or review on file).
- The student resigns—in which case the department should maintain a letter of resignation in the student's file and indicate that the letter is on file in the ePAF for termination.
- The appointment is terminated before the semester end-date. In such a case, the Letter of Appointment becomes inactive, thus all tuition and/or fees become the student's responsibility. For this reason, the normal termination date (ePAF) for graduate assistants is the day after the semester end-date.
NOTE: Before using termination for cause as the reason on a status-change ePAF, departments should contact the Graduate School.