H1.3 Visiting Students
Updated: May 18th, 2012
Graduate student academic appointments are usually reserved for UCB students. Certain non-UCB students may be hired if the department has been unsuccessful in recruiting a qualified Berkeley graduate student, or if the visiting student is unusually qualified for the appointment. Only students who are registered and enrolled at another UC campus, students participating in the Exchange Scholar Program, GTU students in a joint doctoral program, are eligible for an appointment. Hastings College of the Law students may not be appointed as GSIs or GSRs.
UC Intercampus Exchange Program. Graduate students who are registered and enrolled in at least 12 units on another UC campus — even if they are not participating in the UC Intercampus Exchange Program — are eligible to hold graduate student academic appointments on the Berkeley campus, and they may be eligible to receive fee remissions. To hold a fall semester appointment at UCB, a student must be registered and enrolled in the fall term on the other UC campus.
To hold a spring semester appointment at UCB, a student must register and enroll in both the winter and spring quarters or in the spring semester on the other UC campus.
Exchange Scholar Program. The Exchange Scholar Program enables a graduate student enrolled in a doctoral program at one of the participating institutions to study at Berkeley for up to one year. Exchange Scholar Program students pay fees and tuition at their home campus and are assessed only the Health Insurance fee at UCB. If Exchange Scholar Program students have already paid Health Insurance at their home campus, they could apply for a waiver of Health Insurance through University Health Services.
Exchange Scholar Program students may hold graduate student academic appointments on the Berkeley campus and may be eligible for Health Insurance remission with a qualifying appointment.
Current participating institutions are: Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale.
Graduate Theological Union students. There are two programs between UCB and the Graduate Theological Union (GTU): a casual exchange program open to all students at both institutions in which students register on one campus and take courses on the other (subject to appropriate academic approvals); and two joint doctoral programs offered in Near Eastern Religions and Jewish Studies.
Students in the casual program are not registered at the Berkeley campus and are not eligible to hold GSI, AI-GS, or GSR appointments. They may be appointed as Readers and Tutors, or may be eligible to be appointed as Lecturers. Questions about Lecturer appointments must be directed to the Academic Personnel Office .
Students in a joint doctoral program are eligible to hold GSI, AI-GS, GSR, Reader, or Tutor appointments at UCB. And if they are registered at UCB the same semester they hold qualifying graduate student academic employment (GSI, AI-GS, GSR, Reader or Tutor), then and only then joint doctoral program students may be eligible for fee remission.
Education Abroad Program. EAP Reciprocal Exchange students attend a UC campus for up to one academic year on a no-fee-exchange, non-degree basis and are admitted to UCB on Course Work Only (CWO) status. EAP Reciprocal Exchange students are not eligible for GSI, AI-GS or GSR appointments.
They may, however, be appointed as Readers or Tutors.
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