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A limited number of appointments as teaching assistants, laboratory assistants, non-teaching assistants, and research assistants are available to well qualified graduate students. Graduate students pursuing at least six hours of
graduate work, applicable to a graduate degree, may be eligible for a graduate assistantship. Assistantships shall be awarded for one semester only with a maximum of 1-1/2 assistantships per student. Students enrolled in thesis in
progress only may be awarded an assistantship for a maximum of three semesters. Duties of the assistants are assigned according to the nature of the appointment, and the stipend varies with ability and preparation of the student and
with the nature of the service.
The course load of a graduate assistant is reduced according to the extent and nature of the duties assigned. Applications for assistantships should be addressed to the head of the department in which the student will do the major
work.
Graduate students who are employed through the McNeese Personnel Office to work as graduate assistants are allowed credit for half of the tuition portion of their fees plus an out-of-state fee waiver.
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