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The Graduate School is pleased to offer iThenticate, a plagiarism detection software designed to ensure manuscripts are properly cited and to help co-authors and graduate students manage document revisions and workflow.

Applications are now open for the Health Care Assistance Fund, designed to help benefits-eligible academic graduate student employees who encounter higher costs due to an insurance change by providing the difference in out-of-pocket costs for care between the two plans in the form of block grants to students.

UT System has updated its guidance so that premium support may now be provided as a nontaxable benefit. This updated guidance is based, in part, on the current federal enforcement approach for certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act related to employer paid premiums. 

We wanted to provide additional information on health insurance changes for graduate student academic employees (TAs and AIs) and steps the Graduate School is taking to ensure salaries for these positions are raised in accordance with the Graduate Education Task Force recommendations. Starting in the fall 2021 and spring 2022 semesters, academic employees in many areas where salaries have been lower will see increases.