SACS Requirements

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) requires Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTA) who have primary responsibility for teaching a course for credit and/or for assigning final grades for such a course must have earned at least 18 graduate semester credit hours in their teaching discipline, be under the direct supervision of a faculty member experienced in the teaching discipline, receive regular in-service training, and be regularly evaluated.

The hiring department must submit a Certification of Graduate Teaching Assistant Academic Preparation listing the University, Course Prefix and Number, Course Title, Semester Credit Hours, Date, and Grade. The hiring department must submit the completed Certification of Graduate Teaching Assistant Academic Preparation to the Graduate School before the student's graduate assistant assignment as a GTA can be approved and processed through Oracle.

The above requirements do not apply to Graduate Assistants who are engaged in assignments such as laboratory assistance, teaching physical education activities, attending or helping prepare lectures, grading papers, keeping class records, and conducting discussion groups.