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OS201 GSI Job Description Information
Target Openings: 2
Begin Date: 01/01/2021
End Date: 04/30/2021
Appt. Period: Term
Standard Hours: 20 hours/week for 0.5 GSI
Approver: Melissa Eljamal
Hiring Team: Samantha McCoig, Corrie Thomason
Contact Information: Executive Assistant, 800 Weiser – 1042, 734-764-6767, orgstudies.gsi.search@umich.edu
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Course Description:
ORGSTUDY 201. Leadership and Collaboration
Leadership and Collaboration --- This project-based class uses organizational sociology, psychology, economics, and political science to ask what good leadership is and how people can be effective leaders when they lack formal authority. Practical exercises, academic readings, and leader profiles ground this exploration of collaborative leadership, a process with deep roots in Michigan organizational research.
Anticipated Class Schedule: Mon/Wed 10am-11:30am, Discussions Fri 9-10am, 10am-11am, 11am-noon, 2pm-3pm, 3pm-4pm, 4pm-5pm (each of two GSIs would be responsible for 3 discussion sections each)
Estimated effort for the positions: 2 GSI positions (.50 FTE)
Benefits: Tuition waiver and stipend as provided in UM/GEO Agreement
Decision-Making Process:
All applications will be submitted for review to the faculty member teaching the course. After review of applications and possible interviews, the decisions will be made by the professor of the course. Selection criteria include merit, teaching experience, other training or experience which may be required and explicit to the teaching goals/requirements of a specific course, applicant's previous receipt of financial aid, availability of funding, and relevance to graduate training. Estimated date for offers to be extended: November 30, 2020. Applicants may request the status of their application from the program at any time.
Responsibilities:
GSI will be expected to attend every lecture and hold regular office hours and may be asked to deliver two lectures during the course of the semester. GSI will have primary responsibility for their discussion section, which will include a mix of structured exercises designed by the instructor and discussions designed by the GSI. GSI will have primary responsibility for grading, in consultation with the faculty, and will meet as necessary during the semester. The GSI will also be responsible for maintaining and updating grade sheets and other records. It is anticipated that the responsibilities will average 16.5-20 hours per week for a .50 FTE GSI.
Application Deadline: 10/19/2020
Work Experience and Education:
Experienced GSIs with a background in sociology, psychology, management or related social science or professional fields. Applicants with experience in project based or laboratory classes will be preferred but such experience is not necessary.
Desired Qualifications:
Social Science (e.g. Sociology, Political Science, Psychology, or Economics) or related professional school (e.g. Business, Policy, Social Work, Public Health, Information, Education) graduate student preferred. Applicants with experience in project based classes will be preferred. Work experience relevant to leadership content being taught is also preferred.
Required Qualifications:
In compliance with Appendix A of the 2017-2020 UM/GEO agreement (see pp. 106-109 of the UM/GEO agreement) and as part of the training, the College of LSA also requires that potential GSIs whose undergraduate medium of instruction is not English be evaluated for effective proficiency in classroom English. Effective proficiency includes fluent and intelligible speech, the ability to understand the English spoken by the undergraduate students, the ability to produce organized, coherent explanations, and the ability to contribute to the development of interactions with their students. Graduate students are exempt from ELI 994 and the Graduate Student Instructor Oral English Test (GSI-OET) if they hold an undergraduate degree from a U.S. college or university, or an undergraduate degree from a college or university where English is the exclusive medium of instruction. The Department Chair can also refer to the course potential GSIs who need additional language instruction and/or introduction and orientation to the American university classroom and community. If referred, attendance and satisfactory completion is required as a condition of employment as a GSI. Students who are exempt may take the training course on a space-permitting basis. As part of the training and testing, graduate students are required to demonstrate their effective proficiency by taking the GSI-OET conducted by independent evaluators from the Testing Division at the ELI and a faculty representative from the department in which the prospective GSI will be teaching. In the event that an examinee does not successfully complete the GSI-OET at the end of a course, it is incumbent on the department that made admission and support offers to identify alternative support resources that are not GSI positions and that do not require direct contact with undergraduate students. It is not required that these "backup" support systems offer conditions of support that are identical or comparable in level to that which would come from a regular GSI position, but they must be sufficient to meet Department of Homeland Security requirements that the international student be able to demonstrate the existence of financial support during the first year of study. Such alternative support is contingent on the student's concurrently fulfilling ELI course requirements identified in the GSI-OET. This Test is provided at no cost to the student, and the ELI courses are available from the College to enrolled students. Although there is no limit to the number of times one can retake the GSI-OET, a student must complete the post-OET requirements to be eligible for a retest. There are two options for the training course during the year. There will be a Winter semester course (ELI 994) and a Summer course (both 2 credits), the latter only for new, first-term prospective GSIs. For LSA graduate students who are not required to attend the ELI 994 course but who would like to, prior written approval from the appointing department is necessary.
Applications must be submitted through the Interfolio system. You will be asked to provide contact details for at least one person to write a confidential letter of recommendation. Letters of recommendation need to be received directly from the recommenders by the application deadline, October 19, 2020.
The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.