OS Grad Student Instructor

How to Apply

Applicants Must Include With This Application The Following Materials:

• a cover letter addressing interest and qualifications for the position
• a resume or curriculum vita
• teaching history (list course and department)
• any available teaching evaluations

ORGSTUDY 295. Building Belonging:
How Orgs Shape Inclusion and Thriving (Dr. Tiffany Brannon)

Organizations such as universities and corporations have immense power to shape inclusion, and in turn thriving (e.g., achievement, well-being). Such thriving can advance institutional, individual, intergroup, and even societal goals. This course harnesses insights from social psychology and cultural psychology to identify best practices that organizations can leverage to cultivate inclusion. It will focus on intervention strategies, as well as intergroup dynamics including ways to foster non-zero-sum (e.g., win-win versus win-lose) outcomes among social groups that vary in power and status.

The course will engage discussions of real-world applied social issues and cutting-edge, theory-based, experimental and big data interventions. The course will examine a myriad of cultures tied to nationality, social class, race/ethnicity, and gender. It will explore psychological processes that involve self and identity including motivation, belonging, and meaning. The course will empower students to actively apply course insights and takeaways in their daily lives, current student organization interactions, and future professional careers.

T/Th 11:30 am to 1:00 pm

1 GSI position (.5 FTE)

Tuition waiver and stipend as provided in UM/GEO Agreement

• Attend all class lectures and read all course material
• Meet with the instructor for the course on a regular basis
• Hold weekly office hours
• Hold additional meetings with students before major course assignments
• Grade and offer extensive comments on course assignments within the timeframe specified by the professor

Candidate must be in a U-M graduate program for at least one year prior to Winter 2025. Graduate student in good standing with a background in psychology or other social sciences field.

In compliance with Appendix A of the  UM/GEO agreement (see pp. 106-109 of the UM/GEO agreement) and as part of the training, the College of LSA also requires that potential GSIs whose undergraduate medium of instruction is not English be evaluated for effective proficiency in classroom English. Effective proficiency includes fluent and intelligible speech, the ability to understand the English spoken by the undergraduate students, the ability to produce organized, coherent explanations, and the ability to contribute to the development of interactions with their students.

Graduate students are exempt from ELI 994 and the Graduate Student Instructor Oral English Test (GSI-OET) if they hold an undergraduate degree from a U.S. college or university, or an undergraduate degree from a college or university where English is the exclusive medium of instruction. The Department Chair can also refer to the course potential GSIs who need additional language instruction and/or introduction and orientation to the American university classroom and community.

If referred, attendance and satisfactory completion is required as a condition of employment as a GSI. Students who are exempt may take the training course on a space‑permitting basis. As part of the training and testing, graduate students are required to demonstrate their effective proficiency by taking the GSI-OET conducted by independent evaluators from the Testing Division at the ELI and a faculty representative from the department in which the prospective GSI will be teaching.

In the event that an examinee does not successfully complete the GSI-OET at the end of a course, it is incumbent on the department that made admission and support offers to identify alternative support resources that are not GSI positions and that do not require direct contact with undergraduate students. It is not required that these "backup" support systems offer conditions of support that…