Job Description

How to Apply

To apply for the position, please upload a cover letter, CV, and writing sample as one PDF with your application on the University Careers website.

Job Summary

We wish to appoint a GSI for Math 422 / BE 440: Risk Management and Insurance, which satisfies LSA?s Upper Level Writing Requirement. The position is a 0.25 GSI appointment.

If hired, the GSI must attend Writing 993, Graduate Student Instructor Training: Teaching Writing in the Disciplines, a one-credit course that meets remotely for one hour per week. For Winter 2025, the course is offered Tuesdays from 4-5pm or Wednesdays from 9-10am. If the GSI has already satisfactorily completed W993, this requirement is waived.

Course Description

Winter 2025

Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) for Math 422 / BE 440: Risk Management and Insurance

Background and Goals: This course is designed to allow students to explore the insurance mechanism as a means of replacing uncertainty with certainty. A main goal of the course is to explain, using mathematical models from the theory of interest, risk theory, credibility theory, and ruin theory, how mathematics underlies many important individual and societal problems.

Content: We will explore how much insurance affects the lives of students (automobile insurance, social security, health insurance, theft insurance) as well as the lives of other family members (retirements, life insurance, group insurance). While the mathematical models are important, an ability to articulate why the insurance options exist and how they satisfy the consumer?s needs are equally important. In addition, there are different options available (e.g., in social insurance programs) that offer the opportunity of discussing alternative approaches. This course may be used to satisfy the LS&A upper-level writing requirement.

Responsibilities*

Since this is a 0.25 appointment, the weekly average work expectation is 9.50-12.49 hours per week. This time will be spent reviewing course materials, meeting with students to help them with their writing assignments, and grading. There may be some fluctuation depending on course deadlines. 

Required Qualifications*

Candidates do not need to have expertise in insurance; rather, they must be qualified to help students learn to write, including both higher order concerns (organization, use of evidence, audience awareness, coherence of argument) and lower order concerns (grammar, punctuation). 

Desired Qualifications*

LSA student enrolled in a graduate program

Modes of Work

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.

Contact Information

Please contact [email protected] with questions.

Decision Making Process

Candidate qualifications and interview.

Selection Process

Selection Criteria will include:
- Relevant academic preparation for teaching the course material
- Extent of prior instructional experience
- Relevance to graduate training

GEO Contract Information

The University will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, marital status, familial status, parental status or pregnancy status, sex, gender identity or expression (whether actual or perceived), sexual orientation, age, height, weight, disability, citizenship status, veteran status, HIV antibody status, political belief, membership in any social or political organization, participation in a grievance or complaint whether formal or informal, medical conditions including those related to pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, arrest record, or any other factor where the item in question will not interfere with job performance and where the employee is otherwise qualified. The University of Michigan agrees to abide by the protections afforded employees with disabilities as outlined in the rules and regulations which implement Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Unsuccessful applications will be retained for consideration in the event that there are last minute openings for available positions. In the event that an employee does not receive their preferred assignment, they can request a written explanation or an in-person interview with the hiring agents(s) to be scheduled at a mutually agreed upon time.

This position, as posted, is subject to a collective bargaining agreement between the Regents of the University of Michigan and the Graduate Employees' Organization, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO 3550.

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U-M EEO/AA Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

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