| The Undergraduate Associates Program gives Miami students an opportunity to explore careers in academia by working closely with a faculty member. Typically, participants in the program work for a semester or a year assisting a faculty member with many of the tasks typically done in academic life (e.g., teaching, grading, attending governance meetings, engaging in research), but students and faculty members may also propose other creative ways of fulfilling the Undergraduate Associate Program requirements. |
Eligibility: |
In order to participate in the UA Program, students must be sophomores, juniors or seniors and have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher,
an average GPA of 3.2 or higher for courses in their major, and earned at least an "A" in the course that they will be co-teaching with the faculty member or in a more advanced course covering the same material. Students do NOT need to be a member of the University Honors or University Scholars Programs to apply. You must also APPLY to the program and have your application approved prior to beginning the associateship.
What happens if the student does not meet the minimum criteria for eligibility? If a student does not meet the requirements of the UA Program, faculty members can elect to use udergraduate assistants outside the UA Program. They may do so with the approval of the department chair and appropriate dean. The request for approval must include: (1) a statement explaining the educational value of having the student serve as an assistant for the faculty member's course or research; (2) a plan for preparing the student to teach and for providing him or her with continuous feedback; (3) a statement verifying that the faculty member will be present at all times when the undergraduate is teaching; (4) a plan for evaluating the course to determine the value of including the undergraduate as an assistant; and (5) an agreement by the faculty member to provide a brief evaluative report to the chair and dean. Students who undertake this departmentally-based assistantship do not receive a transcript notation.
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Application: |
Applications to the Undergraduate Associates Program are accepted during the first three weeks of each semester.
Please note: Application deadlines for the Undergraduate Associates Program are firm; applications submitted after the deadline will NOT be accepted. Completed applications should be submitted to the Honors & Scholars Program Office in 96 Bishop Hall.
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General Guidelines: |
- In discharging their UA duties, students should not have sole responsibility for grading any assignments or instructing a specific class without supervision of the instructor.
- A minimum of 30 hours of work per semester is expected of any UA.
- The faculty sponsor and the UA are expected to meet at least once per month.
- Students may not serve as UAs for courses in which they are currently enrolled.
- Students may not receive credit for an Undergraduate Associateship for doing work for which they are being paid.
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Receiving Credit: |
- All students wishing to receive credit for an Undergraduate Associateship must turn in a final reflection paper to the Honors & Scholars Program Office upon completion of the UA. Along with this reflection paper, the faculty member should also provide a brief commentary on the student's performance. Among the issues to be discussed in the reflection paper should be:
- What work was done during the UA, and in what ways did it differ from the original plan?
- What did the student learn from the experience?
- How did the experience change the student's way of thinking?
- Students may receive one credit hour for Undergraduate Associate participation through independent study hours in the appropriate department. The final grade will be determined by the instructor on the basis of the student's work and the quality of the student's final reflection.
- University Honors students may receive credit for an Honors Non-Course or Category B experience upon completion of the Undergraduate Associates Program experience
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UA Participants are saying:
"I am so happy to have had the opportunity and time for this UA position. It has strengthened my desire to teach, either high school or college, and has reassured me that graduate school is the right choice for my next stage of life.”
“Next year I will be continuing on to pursue my graduate education in which I may have the opportunity to teach or assist with undergraduate courses. Having completed this Undergraduate Associateship I now feel more prepared to take on such an assignment.” |
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