Teaching - Performance of Duties

Graduate Assistants-Teaching (GATs) are an integral part of the teaching mission of the Department of Chemistry. GATs are professional salaried employees. In order to provide an appropriate learning atmosphere for undergraduate students, it is imperative that laboratory courses be properly instructed and that assigned duties whether they be laboratory instruction and/or grading be carried out conscientiously.

The following steps will be taken when a GAT fails to perform assigned duties:
  1. The GAT's supervisor or laboratory coordinator will discuss the matter with the student in a personal conference. A written record of the personal conference will be prepared and signed by the supervisor and a copy will be given to the student.
  2. If the GAT continues to fail to perform assigned duties, a written reprimand will be issued by the GAT's supervisor or laboratory coordinator to the student, his/her research advisor, and the Graduate Advisor. The reprimand will state the problem, ways in which the problem can be solved, and what will happen if unacceptable performance continues.
  3. Continued failure to perform assigned duties will result in a second written reprimand, and the student will be barred from receiving departmental financial support for at least one full semester.
  4. Written reprimands will be placed in the student's permanent record in the Graduate Student Office.

For more information, write the Graduate Student Advisor: gradmail@mail.chem.tamu.edu.

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