ASUA - Graduate Assistant Monthly (GA) Pool

Job Summary

Graduate Assistant language consultants provide language support to students, faculty, and staff from all disciplines for academic writing, listening, and speaking; second language reading and vocabulary; pronunciation; assistance with lectures and note-taking; plagiarism and textual borrowing conventions; and technology/software that allows students to work independently and with consultants.

About the Role

California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) is a preeminent center of intellectual and cultural activity in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. Opened in 1965 and set at the foothills of the beautiful San Bernardino mountains, the university serves approximately 19,000 students. CSUSB is a federally recognized minority-serving and Hispanic-serving institution that reflects the dynamic diversity of the region and has the most diverse student population of any university in the Inland Empire: 74 percent of its students are members of underrepresented groups, 80 percent are first-generation, and 56 percent are Pell eligible.

Responsibilities

• Conduct one-to-one language support and writing conferences both in person and online via Zoom.
• Conduct small group language and writing conferences with writers working on group projects both in person and online via Zoom.
• Conduct in-class and Writing Center/English Language Support Center-hosted writing workshops on a variety of topics.
• Participate in collaborative mentoring, writing, and professional development activities including reading and discussing scholarship in the area of language support and learning.
• Conduct observations of other consultants’ conferences and provide them with mentoring, and feedback, particularly in the area of language support, in addition to submitting reflective feedback to the Director regarding their own and others’ conferences.
• Maintain accurate records of activities and submit required data and timekeeping records in a timely fashion.

Qualifications

• Excellent readers and writers and speakers of English who are able to interact collaboratively with others working with academic language: undergraduates and graduates in all disciplines, faculty, and staff.
• Minimum GPA: 3.31 year of Writing Center experience.
• Complete with a grade of B+ or better: ENG 3110 Introduction to Linguistics (or equivalent).
• GPA: 3.7
• GPA in WI Designated course: 3.7
• Complete with a grade of B+ or better: ENG 6300 - Writing Center Studies, ENG 6190 - Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition, ENG 5260 - Phonetics and Phonology, ENG 5240 - Sociolinguistics, ENG 5230 - Grammar and Discourse.