GRADUATE ASSISTANT (GA) ORIENTATION CHECKLIST
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

New GA Name (please print):__________________________________________

Orientation given by:_________________________________________________

Distribution: file completed form with departmental personnel jacket; copy to GA and to Dean's Office.

	Orientation Item	Information Source(s)*
	1. College mission	Current mission statement
	2. Duties	Department-specific procedures
	3. Relationship to faculty	Department-specific procedures
	4. Building/suite access and key use	Department-specific procedures
	5. Equipment use (copier, phone, fax, computers/printers, etc.)	Department-specific procedures
	6. Proper dress for office, classroom, etc.	Department-specific procedures
	7. Summer employment	Department-specific Summer Teaching Assignments and Receipt of Grant Funds; UPP Summer Contracts
	8. Outside employment	Department-specific procedures
	9. Travel requests & reimbursement	Department-specific procedures; Faculty Handbook sec. V; UPP Travel Request; Travel Reimbursement
	10. Sexual harassment and equal employment opportunity	UPP Discrimination Complaints/Sexual Harassment
	11. Departmental communications	Department-specific procedures
-	Note: items 12 - 25 are primarily for GA's with teaching assignments	--
	12. Teaching assignments	Department-specific procedures
	13. Course syllabi, including educational objectives	Faculty Handbook sec. III; General Bulletin/ Graduate Bulletin; BBA/MBA Educational Objectives; department-specific procedures
	14. Enforcement of prerequisites, junior standing, etc.	General Bulletin/ Graduate Bulletin; department-specific procedures
	15. Office hours	Faculty Handbook sec. III
	16. Meeting and conducting classes	Faculty Handbook sec. III; UPP Meeting and Conducting Classes
	17. Instructor absences from class, incl. travel, sick leave, jury duty, emergencies	Faculty Handbook sec. III; UPP Sick Leave
	18. Drink, food, and tobacco	Faculty Handbook sec. III; UPP Food, Drink, and Tobacco
	19. Miscellaneous classroom practices	Faculty Handbook sec. III
	20. Final examinations	Faculty Handbook sec. III; UPP Final Examinations
	21. Students with disabilities	Information from Disability Services office
	22. Academic misconduct and academic complaints by students	Faculty Handbook sec. III; UPP Academic Appeals by Students and Cheating and Plagiarism
	23. Student assessment of teaching	Student Assessment of Teaching Process and Policies; UPP Student Evaluation of Faculty
	24. Grade reporting procedures	Department-specific procedures
	25. Assignment of WH grades	COB Withheld (WH) Grade Policy
	26. Textbook selection	Department-specific procedures
	27. Emergency Procedures	UPP Emergencies; Emergency Management Plan
	28. Other SFASU and COB policies	Faculty Handbook; UPP; COB WWW pages*

*Most documents are available at www.cob.sfasu.edu/process/process.htm. Those designated "UPP" are under the University Policy and Procedure Manual link.

Acknowledgment:

The above items were discussed with me on (date) _________________.

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New Graduate Assistant Signature

Rev. 9/22/99

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