The Graduate School
William S. Livingston Outstanding Graduate Student Academic Employee Award
Each year the Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) calls for nominations for outstanding performance by graduate student academic employees. The nomination categories are:
Teaching Assistant (TA) (Job code 0063)
Assistant Instructor (AI) (Job code 0045)
Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) (Job code 0090)
Award winners will be chosen by a GSA review committee of peer graduate students. Each award recipient will be recognized at the annual Graduate School/University Co-op Awards Banquet and will receive a $2,000 prize provided through the generosity of the University Co-op.
Eligibility
All graduate students (master's or doctoral level) are eligible for nomination if they held the appointment title of Teaching Assistant (0063), Assistant Instructor (0045), or Graduate Research Assistant (0090) at the university during one of the following semesters: spring 2009, summer 2009, or fall 2009.
All nominations must be sponsored by a faculty member, and each graduate program may submit only one nomination for each appointment category (TA, AI, GRA).
Nomination Requirements
Nominations are only accepted on the nomination form. (The nomination form requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Download free Reader.). Nominating faculty members should be aware that NO appended materials are considered in the judging process. All the information that committee members are asked to review to make their recommendations comes from the nomination form. If you find you need to expand upon your nominee's qualities and experience beyond the space allotted on the nomination form, you may attach additional pages that address the specific questions asked on the form. However, please be aware that resumes or curriculum vitae, course instructor surveys, research proposals, and other supplementary materials are not reviewed and should not be included in your packet.
The nomination form must be completed by the nominating faculty member. The department chair or director or his/her designated representative must submit the form electronically to the Graduate School, confirming that the applicant is the program's sole nominee for the designated category.
Save the nomination form in pdf format and email as an attachment to gradawards@austin.utexas.edu.
All documents must be submitted electronically by 5:00 p.m. on March 5, 2010.
A summary of all of the 2010 awards for graduate students is printed on the awards flier (.pdf). (Flier requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Download free Reader.)