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The
Housing Graduate Assistantship is an add-on assistantship for a graduate
student that has been hired as a hall director at UWA. In addition
to standard hall director responsibilities, the graduate assistant will
assist the Director of Student Life and Housing with the day-to-day
operations of the Housing Office. To apply for a hall director position,
please go HERE.
Responsibilities:
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Serves as a hall director on the UWA campus.
If a hall director resigns or is removed from his/her hall director
position, the graduate assistantship will also be cancelled.
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Coordinates the
Housing disciplinary process and oversees disciplinary hearings for
students who violate residence hall regulations.
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Assists in the
selection and training of resident assistants and desk assistants.
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Works at the Housing
Office two hours per day (Monday - Friday). This is in
addition to at least two office hours per day in his/her residence
hall.
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Serves as the
advisor to the Residence Hall Association (RHA).
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Coordinates RHA
elections.
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Designates a member
of RHA to represent the
organization at Student Government Association meetings.
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Participates in all staff
training. Training begins August
1st, 2008.
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Arrives back on campus by August 1,
2008 during the fall and January 7, 2009 during the
spring semester.
Qualifications:
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Must
be eligible for admission to the
School of Graduate Studies:
Bachelor’s degree with at least a 2.75 GPA and a score of 40 or
above on the Miller Analogies Test or 850 or above on the Graduate
Record Exam (Verbal and Quantitative).
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Must
maintain a 3.0 GPA in graduate school.
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Must have been selected as a hall
director at UWA.
Supervision:
The
graduate assistant reports directly to the Director of Student Life and
Housing.
Benefits (In addition to the hall director benefits):
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$1,500 per semester
scholarship (fall and spring).
Activity Commitments:
Graduate hall directors are not permitted to hold
other jobs or assistantships
when classes are in session.
Any exceptions to this policy must be approved
in advance.
Appointments:
The starting date for the
graduate assistant position is August 1, 2008. No hall director is guaranteed employment for the summer
semester or for more than one academic year.
Application
Process:
Submit a cover letter, résumé, and list of three
references (including names, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers) to
the address below once you have been selected as a hall director at UWA. Review of applications will begin immediately.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Mr. Luther Gremmels
Director of Student Life & Housing
Station 26
University of West Alabama
Livingston, AL 35470
For more information, please contact
Luther Gremmels at (205) 652-3768 or at
Gremmels@uwa.edu
The University of West Alabama does not discriminate on the basis of
race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability or
sexual orientation in employment or the provision of services.
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