Graduate Assistant

The rules governing the employment of graduate assistants (teaching, research or administrative) come from the Office of Graduate Studies. For information about eligibilty rules, stipend rates, the tuition remission policy and tuition rates, please visit this link: http://www.pdx.edu/ogs/graduate-assistantships

Graduate Assistants are hired via the EPAF system: http://www.pdx.edu/hr/how-to-hire-a-9-month-graduate-assistant

• No letter of offer needed as the employee accepts the position online (PSU Information System).
• This process is used for 9-mo academic year appointments only. The student must already have filled out the new hire paperwork in HR for the EPAF to go through the system.
• Certain situations still require a paper letter of offer: summer appointments, 12-mo terms of service, funding on a Foundation account, and for the very first appointment of an international student to a GA position (subsequent appointments may use the EPAF process).

Tuition remissions are entered each term using the tuition remissions database: Remissions Database