This session will seek to empower teaching assistants (TAs) to transform their academic role into a strategic career development opportunity. Participants will learn critical skills in professional self-advocacy, strategic networking, and effective boundary setting within academic and professional contexts. The session will cover key competencies including professional communication, negotiating workload and expectations, documenting impactful contributions, […]

Eligibility: The TA Institute is open to undergraduate and graduate TAs, and all graduate students who are interested in teaching. This session is not open staff, or faculty. This session will focus on cultivating an inclusive and supportive classroom community by critically examining and addressing personal and systemic biases that can impact teaching effectiveness. Teaching assistants […]

Eligibility: The TA Institute is open to undergraduate and graduate TAs, and all graduate students who are interested in teaching. This session is not open staff, or faculty. Being a TA is hard work. We’re in between our students and our instructors. Sometimes this is a comfortable place to be; sometimes it’s uncomfortable. Fortunately, our Collective […]