Graduate Assistant - Forensics - Fall

Graduate Assistant Position

Administrative assistant will be assisting forensics serving as a judge at some intercollegiate forensics events and will travel with the squad as an adult supervisor to several off-campus tournaments. Additional time spent in team/coach meetings, coaching sessions, and other administrative duties assigned by the Director of Forensics or the Assistant Director of Forensics. Administrative assistant will be cost efficient and an excellent opportunity for training with forensics.

Assisting the Forensics team by coaching events, attending team/coaching staff meetings, assisting with the day to day tasks given by the Director/Assistant Director of Forensics, and serving as a judge/coach by traveling to intercollegiate forensics tournaments.

Education:

Bachelor's Degree Required, Currently admitted to a UCM graduate degree program, 3.0 or higher graduate level GPA if previous graduate level courses have been taken, 2.7 or higher undergraduate level GPA if no previous graduate level courses have been taken.

GA Type:
Administrative, GA Hour Expectations: 10 hours a week, Start Date of Position: 08/10/2026, End Date of Position: 12/11/2026, Total Stipend for Semester: $2,475, Working Days &

Hours:

Monday-Friday and some weekends necessary no more than 10 hours a week.

Scholarship:
Students filling a Graduate Assistantship (GA) position are eligible to receive a graduate tuition waiver, a graduate non-resident tuition waiver (if applicable), and a graduate mandatory fees waiver. The scholarships are in the form of a waiver and the funds are not deposited into the student's personal account. Instead, the student's bill is reduced by the amount of the scholarship awarded.

If the maximum amount of the scholarship is not used, the remainder is not paid to the student in any form and unused scholarship money cannot be carried over to another semester. The scholarship is applied to graduate level courses only; courses taken for undergraduate credit are not eligible to be covered by the GA scholarship. The non-resident fee scholarship only applies to classes taken on the UCM Warrensburg campus.

The maximum scholarship amounts are based on the size of assistantship held. For a full (20-hour per week) assistantship, the scholarship covers tuition costs and mandatory fees up to 12 credit hours of graduate coursework per semester. Graduate assistantship positions less than full will be prorated accordingly.