assistantship
noun
as·sis·tant·ship
ə-ˈsi-stən(t)-ˌship 
: a paid appointment awarded annually to a qualified graduate student that requires part-time teaching, research, or residence hall duties
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Listen to this article Aubrey Lay — a Fulbright scholar — was supposed to get paid for three months of work by the U.S. government through his teaching assistantship at a school for Ukrainian refugees in Estonia.
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Heather Hollingsworth, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
Aubrey Lay -- a Fulbright scholar -- was supposed to get paid for three months of work by the U.S. government through his teaching assistantship at a school for Ukrainian refugees in Estonia.
—arkansasonline.com, 15 Jan. 2025
After her assistantship at Yale, Cook mainly taught at Howard University, although she was never granted tenure.
—Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
My first paying job was a teaching assistantship in graduate school.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 8 Mar. 2024
Much of what the countercultural readers of The Whole Earth Catalog knew about computers came via something funded by the U.S. government: a college computer lab, a physics course, a research assistantship, a job at a defense-electronics firm.
—Margaret O’Mara, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
Over the past twenty years, the number of people in the U.S. employed as executive secretaries and administrative assistants has more than halved, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which expects assistantship across industries to decline nine per cent by 2029.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
Moreover, at the post-graduate level, many of them get around Rs12,000 per month as a stipend for teaching and research assistantship.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 July 2022
The current minimum stipend for a nine-month assistantship — employment that helps students pay for school — is $18,340.
—Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
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Heather Hollingsworth, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
Aubrey Lay -- a Fulbright scholar -- was supposed to get paid for three months of work by the U.S. government through his teaching assistantship at a school for Ukrainian refugees in Estonia.
—arkansasonline.com, 15 Jan. 2025
After her assistantship at Yale, Cook mainly taught at Howard University, although she was never granted tenure.
—Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
My first paying job was a teaching assistantship in graduate school.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 8 Mar. 2024
Much of what the countercultural readers of The Whole Earth Catalog knew about computers came via something funded by the U.S. government: a college computer lab, a physics course, a research assistantship, a job at a defense-electronics firm.
—Margaret O’Mara, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
Over the past twenty years, the number of people in the U.S. employed as executive secretaries and administrative assistants has more than halved, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which expects assistantship across industries to decline nine per cent by 2029.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
Moreover, at the post-graduate level, many of them get around Rs12,000 per month as a stipend for teaching and research assistantship.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 July 2022
The current minimum stipend for a nine-month assistantship — employment that helps students pay for school — is $18,340.
—Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
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“Assistantship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assistantship. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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