Students (GAs, Post Docs, and Student Workers)

Research professors (all ranks) are research-focused faculty who are funded from the grants, contracts, and research-related revenues that they generate. Ten percent (not more without the consent of the Dean) of a research professor’s personnel costs will be funded from the unit. This gives service time for the research professor to write new grants, serve on unit committees, participate in unfunded scholarly work, or perform other faculty duties. Unit heads have the responsibility to ensure compliance.

The Division of Agriculture Life and Veterinary Sciences and Cooperative Extension is committed to ensuring our Graduate Assistants and Associates are compensated appropriately and at a highly competitive level. Provost Folks’ has set a new minimum starting Fall 2022 of $20,000 per year for a 9 month, 0.50FTE stipend.

Cyber security underpins every aspect of our daily work at the University. Threats to cyber security can seriously undermine our collective efforts and expose our most sensitive information. Therefore, we must do our best to protect our information, and this includes safeguarding our NetID password by utilizing a security enhancement that the University offers: NetID Plus (NetID+).

A compromised NetID password can lead to breaches of:

Sensitive Data is data whose unauthorized disclosure may have serious adverse effects on the university’s reputation, resources, services, or individuals.  Sensitive Data includes social security numbers, credit card information, and anything else that can be used to facilitate identity theft.  It also includes federally protected data such as student information and medical information, as well as passwords, account information, restricted data, and any other unique identification.  UA faculty and staff are responsible for protecting sensitive data to which they have authorized access, as