Article 13

B. Qualifications
B.1 Many departments include a wide range of specializations and, in order to be appointed, a person must have sufficient knowledge in the discipline of the course to interpret the course material.

D. Assignment and Compensation
D.5 The assignment given a GTA will not normally be fewer than three (3) or more than seven (7) base units and the most common assignment will normally be five (5) or six (6) base units. 

F. Appointment Priority
F.1 Teaching Assistants may be appointed to fill teaching support positions only when faculty members are unavailable. Faculty members and full-time employees of the University, other than Post-Docs, are not Teaching Assistants. However, no appointment of a Sessional Lecturer I may be made if there is a qualified graduate student within the first priority group (specified in F.3.) available for appointment as a GTA. 

F.3a In hiring Teaching Assistants, departments shall give priority to the applicants in the following order:
(i) Graduate students registered in the department
(ii) Graduate students registered in other departments
(iii) Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTA) 
(Iv) External Teaching Assistants (ETA)

F.3b Prior to appointing a Teaching Assistant from applicants in (ii), (iii), or (iv), the department must have provided at least a five (5) base unit appointment to those applicants in (i). Subsequently the same will be applied to those applicants in (ii) prior to appointing a Teaching Assistant from applicants in (iii) or (iv), and the same process repeated for applicants in (iii). If any graduate student requests less than five (5) base units, then fulfilling that request will be sufficient to comply with this requirement. 

F.4a  If a Graduate student indicates in writing a desire to TA in their department, they will be deemed to have applied for all available TA positions in the relevant semester. Such Graduate students will not be required to apply for specific appointments, but may indicate their preferences for particular courses. 

F.4b Graduate students from outside the department must apply in writing and indicate the courses to which they are applying; they may indicate any preferences for particular courses.

F.5 Qualified graduate students who have been allocated less than five (5) base units in a given semester who apply specifically for these new positions, will have priority for additional base units up to five (5). 

F.7 Failure to give timely acceptance of an offer of appointment may result in loss of priority for that semester. Individuals who have lost their priority for these reasons may exercise their priority should they apply when new work becomes available, as described in Article 18. 

F.8 The appointing department shall make all reasonable efforts to apply candidates’ stated preferences, when appointments and assignments are made.

H. Re-employment as a Teaching Assistant
H.1 To be considered for re-employment, a graduate or undergraduate Teaching Assistant must maintain satisfactory performance as a Teaching Assistant.
H.2 The re-employment of Teaching Assistants will also depend on the needs and budget resources of the university

Article 18

B.1 If Teaching Assistant positions become available after the initially posted positions in the department have been assigned, the department will notify all graduate students registered in the department, via email.