Return to Checklist: Winter / Summer
TA/Interns:
CFIS will fund an assistant for single-director programs that enroll at least 18 students and for co-directed programs that enroll at least 30 students. These enrollments must be valid at the time of ticketing (usually, but not always, early November for winter programs and April for summer programs). The assistant can be an undergraduate or a graduate student, or even have some other status, but the person may not be a student enrolled in the program. If the assistant is a graduate student or UD employee, have their supervisor or chairperson e-mail their approval to your coordinator.
We highly recommend that the assistant be someone with travel experience, preferably at your program’s location, who can relate well to the students, live with them, and assist them with day-to-day questions. If the program takes place in a non-English-speaking country, it would be helpful if the assistant were fluent in the local language.
CFIS will cover the assistant’s expenses (airfare, housing, excursions, local ground transportation—whatever your program fee includes) up to the amount of the program fee and including single room accommodations if appropriate and financially feasible. If you think you might need an assistant, please include that person’s expenses in your preliminary budget. Assistants for co-directed programs should be agreed upon by both faculty directors.
The spouse or child of a faculty director is not permitted to serve as the assistant to that faculty member’s program.
