Assistantship Clearinghouse
The Assistantship Clearinghouse lists hourly positions and assistantships available to graduate students at the University. Units wishing to post available assistantships and hourly positions may use the Assistantship Posting Form http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/clearinghouse/postform.cfm.
Postings
GRA - Entrepreneurial Teacher Leaders
Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Research Assistantship - 50 percent
The Entrepreneurial Leadership in STEM Teaching & learning (EnLiST) initiative at Illinois intends to develop and build the infrastructural elements necessary to sustain a state-wide community of highly qualified science Teacher Leaders who will effectively contribute to the transformation of science teaching and learning throughout the K-12 educational continuum in their districts. EnLiST will achieve its goals through a combination of intensive summer institutes and year-round professional development and collaborative activities. The innovation of EnLiST is its intent to reconceptualize the very notion of a "Teacher Leader" by drawing on scholarship in the field of social and entrepreneurial leadership and theories of distributed leadership. EnLiST aims to create a new generation of Teacher Leaders who, armed with cutting edge content knowledge, a strong pedagogical repertoire, and entrepreneurial spirit, can support their colleagues and transform their schools into responsive and data driven institutions of teaching and learning. The major research questions of the project will center on understanding and assessing the development of the target Teacher Leaders and the success of those leaders in transforming their own teaching. The ultimate aim is to develop a scalable national model for the preparation of social and entrepreneurial science Teacher Leaders who act as strong champions and effective initiators and implementors of change in pre-college science teaching and learning. The EnLiST research questions are: (a) What is the impact, if any, of the project's activities on participant Teacher Leaders' conceptions, attitudes, skills, and behaviors related to social and entrepreneurial leadership? (b) What is the nature of the perceived organizational culture in partner school districts in relation to barriers to, and encouragement of, innovation and change? What are the associated roles of Teacher Leaders and school administrators? (c) What is the differential impact, if any, of enhanced social and entrepreneurial leadership among Teacher Leaders on effecting innovation and change in science teaching and learning in partner school districts?
Graduate Assistantship, Asian American Studies
Asian American Studies Program Graduate Assistantship - 25 or 50 percent
Primary duties include maintenance of website, creation of publicity/advertising material including the Program newsletter, and providing general support for programming at the Asian American Studies Program.
Candidates must be able to work 10 or 20 hours per week, to hold regularly scheduled office hours, and should also be available to assist with occasional evening and weekend events.
EPSY 220 Career Theory and Practice Teaching Asst
Educational Psychology Teaching Assistantship - 33 percent
Design and implementation of a life planning process; a participatory experience that includes a survey of theories, models, and research on life planning and that encourages systematic skill identification, values clarification, and the development of job search strategies. The faculty supervisors for the course are Dr. James Rounds and Dr. Gail Rooney in the Educational Psychology department
GRA in the Compuational Med Group
NCSA Research Assistantship - 50 percent
The Computational Medicine Group of the National Center for Supercomputer Applications is seeking a Graduate Research Assistant to design and test an interface for the Center for Clinical and Translational Science Cyberenvironment (Portal Interface Designer). The work will focus on designing and branding the Front-End of already existing Open Source environments.
NCSA Research Assistantship - 50 percent
The leadership team of the ICLCS is interested in hiring a 50% graduate research assistant to work with the ICLCS virtual learning community to evaluate factors that contribute to its sustainability and scalability. The learning community uses Moodle for professional development of high school teachers that includes content enhancement, collaboration with mentors and peers, and other online course requirements.
(Employment can continue over the summer or other semesters for the successful candidate).
This project will evaluate the virtual learning community and social network with emphasis on, but not limited to (1) how leadership develops over time; (2) the effectiveness of the community to deliver professional development; and (3) contributions that the learning community makes toward decreasing teacher isolation. The GRA hired will also develop an evaluation of the ICLCS virtual learning community and collect data that will result in a future publication and that informs the leadership team of the impact of the program.
NCSA Hourly - 20 hours/wk
The Computational Chemistry grant at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is seeking two graduate and/or academic hourly employees to implement functional modules in GridChem and provide client, middleware and HPC integration for Chemistry and Biology applications.
NCSA Research Assistantship - 50 percent
The Innovative Systems Laboratory (ISL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has two graduate research assistant positions available for the Fall of 2008 and Spring of 2009 to assist with the development and implementation of algorithms and applications on computational accelerators, such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), the Cell Broadband Engine, and Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA).
Web Designer & Content Management System Transcrib
Library - Office of Web Technologies & Content Coordination Hourly - 10 hours/wk
Web Designer & Content Management System Transcriber. The Web Designer's primary responsibilities will be to work with library staff to develop new web sites and content to be used in web pages served through the Library's Content Management System, openCMS. This will include the development of custom CSS as well as some graphic design. When the workload of the Office of Web Technologies & Content Coordination demands it, the Web Designer will also occasionally work as a Content Management System Transcriber.
Content Management System Transcriber s convert existing static web pages into the library's Content Management System, OpenCMS, cleaning up HTML code in the process to be valid and accessible. They are not responsible for creating original text/content for pages, but often do engage in quite a bit of HTML rewriting and content rearrangement to bring pages in line with web and accessibility best practices.
Content Management System Transcriber
Library - Office of Web Technologies & Content Coordination Hourly - 10 hours/wk
Content Management System Transcribers convert existing static web pages into the library's Content Management System, OpenCMS, cleaning up HTML code in the process to ensure it is valid and accessible. They are not responsible for creating original text/content for pages, but often do engage in HTML rewriting and content rearrangement to bring pages in line with web and accessibility best practices.
Integration Application Developer
AITS Research Assistantship - 50 percent
The Research Assistant/Integration Application Developer position is funded primarily by the prestigious Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration received by the University of Illinois for its contributions to the OpenEAI Project (http://www.OpenEAI.org). OpenEAI is an integration methodology and technology for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and for implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for application integration developed as a part of the University of Illinois' UI-Integrate project to update and integrate the University's mission-critical enterprise systems. The technology can be applied to any market sector, and its open source universal integration methodology can be applied to all integrations and services regardless of their technical implementation.
Research Assistants will be assigned to integration projects with the Integration Competency Center (ICC) team of the University's Administrative IT Services department. They will learn the OpenEAI methodology for analysis of integration requirements and the OpenEAI technical approach to implementing integrations in service oriented architectures. The research assistants will work closely with the ICC team, the application development team, the enterprise architects of the University of Illinois, and the members of the OpenEAI Software Foundation. Research assistants will attend OpenEAI training consisting of at least three courses: a technology overview, analysis and development, and deployment and administration.
The OpenEAI Software Foundation is modeled after the Apache Software Foundation and was incorporated in October 2002 to provide organizational, legal, and financial support for the OpenEAI project and closely-related endeavors that may be integrated into the project. The foundation was created with the assistance of the University of Illinois (which gifted seminal EAI work to the OpenEAI Software Foundation) and Open Integration Incorporated. The foundation was incorporated as a membership-based, not-for-profit corporation in order to ensure that the OpenEAI Project continues to exist beyond the participation of individual volunteers, enable contributions of intellectual property and funds on a sound basis, and provide a framework to limit legal exposure for contributors participating in an expansive open-source project. Research Assistants will have the opportunity to become members of the OpenEAI Software Foundation during the period of their assistantship. Membership requires significant contributions to the project. As members they could help shape the OpenEAI Project and steer the OpenEAI Software Foundation in the future.
Position Function
This position reports to the Manager of the Administrative IT Services Integration Competency Center (ICC). The assistant performs integration analysis, development, testing, and documentation tasks with OpenEAI technology for integration and service oriented architectures and develops and extends OpenEAI foundation components. Most development work is performed in Java. All work products of the assistant are created under the aegis of the OpenEAI project and contributed to the OpenEAI project. The assistant will be assigned to real-world integration projects with other ICC staff. The ICC team will support the work of the assistant with feedback, assistance, and collaboration on all assignments.
Supervision
The employee in this position works under the direct supervision of the Manager of the ICC on work assignments and progress. Every two weeks the Manager of the ICC and representatives from the Open EAI Foundation meet with the assistant to specifically discuss and assess assignments, status, learning and experience goals, and progress toward those goals. Every three months, these managers provide the assistant with written feedback on job performance and progress toward the objectives of the learning experience.
Office for Information Management Hourly - 10 hours/wk
Provide classroom technical and computer support.
Guided Individual Study Graduate Assistantship - 25 percent
Under the supervision of an Instructional Designer, collaborate in the development of online courses as offered through Academic Outreach, including Guided Individual Study Program (GIS), and the Office of Continuing Education. Includes providing assistance with planning and coordinating materials with the course instructor(s) and development team.
Design and develop web pages for online courses as offered through Guided Individual Study program, includes assisting in developing the content with www technology in mind and designing and preparing the final documents to internet standards for online courses as offered through Academic Outreach.
May provide technical assistance to students and faculty/instructors with various technologies.
Additional office duties and responsibilities assigned as needed.
Office of Minority Student Affairs Hourly - 25% hours/wk
Graduate Counselors are a vital part of the academic support component of the Office of Minority Student Affairs. Persons employed must be enrolled in graduate school and making satisfactory progress at UIUC. The position involves advising and counseling students in a variety of areas--academic, personal, career, financial, and general concerns. Applicants
are expected to bring to the position a sincere commitment to the concept of equal educational opportunity.
Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services/Beckwith Hall Graduate Assistantship - 50 percent
The Beckwith Residence Hall Graduate Residence Advisor position is a .5FTE graduate assistantship for which the Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES) provides in kind room and board at Beckwith Residence Hall and a monthly stipend. Duties begin August and continue through May. The Graduate Resident Advisor serves as a member of the Beckwith Administrative team.
