Assistantship and Postdoc Resources
Below are resources for Teaching Assistants (TA), Research Assistants (RA), Graduate Assistants (GA), and Postdocs here at UC. No matter what title you hold, you can visit the Bearcat Promise Career Studio for more guidance and information on professionalism and support to help you succeed in your role.
For more information regarding how to find an assistantship and the requirements, please visit the Graduate College Graduate Assistantships webpage. Graduate Assistantship openings are often posted in Handshake, the UC student job portal, and shared in GradCurrents, the Graduate College’s weekly newsletter for UC graduate students.
Bearcats Landing is UC’s employee intranet. It offers online access to critical university information, documents, tools, HR information, and resources. Find quick and convenient access to all the links and tools you need to get your job done.
Graduate students who are also employed by UC (as GAs, student workers, etc.) have access to this intranet.
Have you ever found content in your course that was difficult to read or you wish came in a different format? Now, you can download alternative formats of instructor content directly from your course: Ally in Canvas for Alternative Fonts.
A hub of excellence in teaching and learning. They provide customized consultations on teaching and learning for individual instructors, small groups, departments, and colleges within the University of Cincinnati. They directly support community-building through the support of interdisciplinary Faculty Learning Communities dedicated to furthering member engagement in the university's teaching mission.
Contact Information:
- Location: 2911 Woodside Drive, Langsam Library
- Phone: 513-556-9319
- Website: CET&L website
The FEC provides support and advocacy to develop and retain a diverse faculty who feel professionally and personally enriched and satisfied, and who contribute innovatively to the mission of the university throughout their careers.
Services are available for Teaching Assistants with workshops, technology and space offerings, and more! Check out the Faculty Enrichment Center Bearcats Landing intranet site (UC login required).
Contact information:
- Location: 2911 Woodside Dr, Langsam Library Suite 540
- Phone: 513-556-7324
- Website: Faculty Enrichment Center
- Email: enrichfaculty@ucmail.uc.edu
The UC PFF program provides instruction in modern teaching and learning and offers rich mentoring experiences that strengthen these career skills through workshops, reading groups, courses, and more!
Contact Information:
- Phone: 513-556-4335
- Website: UC PFF program
- Email: gradpff@uc.edu
Teaching Effectiveness covers the theory and practice of effective, learning-focused teaching at the college level, including how to establish student learning goals, develop a syllabus, use diverse approaches to teaching and assess student learning. All participants will develop an electronic teaching portfolio.
- Course Code: PD8041, three graduate (semester) credits, pass/fail, offered fall semester.
- Visit the Graduate College Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Courses website to learn more.
The University of Cincinnati is pleased to partner with the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) as an Institutional Member to provide professional development resources and support for faculty and graduate students. Please take advantage of the enriching programs NCFDD has to offer.
For more information, create a free NCFDD account.
Access academic assistance for research questions, citation needs and data services. Find resources and expertise for scholarly research. Discover instructional support services for faculty and students.
For more information about these resources and workshops, visit the UC Libraries website.
The National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) aims to improve the postdoctoral experience by supporting a culture of inclusive connection. At the individual, organizational, and national levels, they facilitate enhanced professional growth, raise awareness, and collaborate with stakeholders in the postdoctoral community.
The UC Department of Internal Medicine has collected resources relevant to postdocs both within the Internal Medicine department and more broadly. Some of the broader resources include the Postdoctoral Association SharePoint, Researcher Tools, and continuing education opportunities.
This article by a graduate student from Inside Higher Ed discusses the challenges graduate students face in the classroom and walks through incorporating an interdisciplinary approach.
This article provides guidance for TAs on establishing boundaries and is by Ed Himelblau who wrote The Teaching Assistant’s Guide: Essential Strategies for College Lectures and Labs (2024).
Himelblau also has a website The TA’s Guide which contains quick tips and templates to support TAs’ efforts.
This article for graduate student instructors presents seven pieces of advice intended to better prepare the predoctoral graduate student to assume the role of the professor before assuming the title. By understanding the attitudes of undergraduate students toward graduate instructors, preparing in advance to handle the mistakes that novice teachers often make, and recognizing the correlation between outward confidence and student perceptions of instructor quality, graduate students can derive the most benefit from a stressful and time-consuming assignment.
This section of the Graduate Assistants Handbook includes best practices for areas such as Time Management, Work/Life Balance, and Managing Conflict.
Every student undertaking research with a faculty mentor wants to be a successful research assistant, but not everyone is aware of how to accomplish this. This PDF contains tips on how to be a successful research assistant based on former students’ research experiences.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee created a Graduate Assistant Handbook which includes recommendations on Managing Conflict and Guidelines for Classroom Conflict Transformation.