1. Source Documents
2. Requirements For Recruitment, Selection, Appointment, Re-appointment, Promotion, and Termination
3. Required Training, Supervision, and Assessment
4. Required Reports

1. Executive Order 28: Graduate Student Service Appointments is in the University Handbook, Volume IV, Chapter 6, pp. 34-39 at http://www.washington.edu/faculty/facsenate/handbook/04-04-06.htm.
2. Executive Order 30: Graduate Student Fellowship and Traineeship Awards is in the University Handbook, Volume IV, Chapter 8, at http://www.washington.edu/faculty/facsenate/handbook/04-04-08.htm

• Receive prior approval by the department before recruitment can begin.
• Be posted to the School of Nursing e-mail list for graduate students (nsgrad@u.washington.edu or nsdocs@u.washington.edu for PhD students only) at least five days prior to the closing date for receipt of applications. Advertising may also include: using postal mail, email, or phone to notify applicants who have been offered admission to the School of Nursing about the position; posting the position to the UW Graduate Advisors email list (gpaa@u.washington.edu); and posting the position on the School of Nursing Web site and/or bulletin boards.
• Be advertised with the following minimum information: position title, responsibilities, hours, salary range, period of appointment, closing date for receipt of applications, and contact information.

• a letter of appointment/reappointment from the hiring official that includes all items listed in the UW/UAW contract at http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/laborrel/contracts/uaw/contract/a04.html. No matter how long the period of appointment, a letter of appointment must be issued for each period (i.e. if an appointee continues in a quarterly appointment for more than one quarter, a letter of appointment must be issued each quarter).
• Executive Order 28
• Council of Graduate Schools Resolution
• For TAs only: Graduate School Memorandum No. 14
• For International TAs only: Graduate School Memorandum No. 15
• For reappointments, departments must also comply with the criteria for promotion listed in Section 2c below.

1. Assure that the appointee has been evaluated annually by the School of Nursing or his/her home department as making satisfactory progress in his/her program of study;
2. Evaluate each appointee annually as performing the duties specified in the offer letter for their appointment, including allowing the student appointee to respond to the evaluation, filing letter in the student file; and
3. Assure that information concerning the availability of graduate appointments, including conditions for reappointment, are published as noted in Section 1.

• unsatisfactory progress toward completion of the degree
• lack of registration on a full-time basis
• unsatisfactory performance of the duties of the appointment, including working required hours

Terminating an appointee for cause must follow the steps outlined in Executive Order 28, Chapter 6, Section 2D, and Article 6 of the UW/UAW contract at http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/laborrel/contracts/uaw/contract/a06.html

3. REQUIRED TRAINING, SUPERVISION, AND ASSESSMENT

3a. Training and Supervision of All ASEs. Supervising Faculty/Staff must:

• make clear in writing what is expected both of the student and the faculty/staff member in the appointee-supervisor relationship well in advance of the beginning of the appointment;
• explain and document in writing what constitutes satisfactory performance of appointee duties;
• provide adequate written feedback to the appointee about his or her work at least annually; and
• provide discipline-specific training and orientation as outlined in Executive Order 28, Chapter 6, Section 3A.

• during the first two quarters of a TA appointment: 1) communicate criteria for teaching competence and procedures for observations, 2) observe, 3) evaluate, 4) provide required feedback/reports to TAs, as outlined in Graduate School Memorandum 14 and Sections 3c and 4 below.
• assure that in all classes in which TAs are assigned teaching duties, the statement in School of Nursing Academic Services Memorandum 36: Communicating Concerns about Teaching is included in the syllabus.
• assign teaching duties to non-U.S. citizens ONLY if they 1) meet English language proficiency requirements and 2) participate fully in the International Teaching Assistant Program at the Center for Instructional Development and Research (CIDR), as outlined in Graduate School Memorandum 15;
• assure that TAs attend the Graduate School's New TA Orientation at the beginning of the academic year in which they hold their first TA appointment at UW or, if hired after the date of this orientation, whenever it is next offered;
• assure that international TAs 1) meet English language proficiency requirements (supervising faculty or staff members may confirm that this requirement has been met with the Graduate School's Fellowship and Assistantship Division), 2) attend the International TA Program's Pre-Autumn Workshop and participate fully in the activities of the International TA Program at the Center for Instructional Development and Research (CIDR) throughout their first two quarters of appointment, as outlined in Graduate School Memorandum 15;
• provide adequate written feedback to the appointee about his or her work during the first two quarters of his/her appointment and then on an annual basis (see Sections 3c and 4);