UC Riverside Graduate Teaching Assistant reviews

The workload can vary greatly based on the course you are assigned and the professor teaching the course. The majority of my TA assignments were positive as professors were organized and had reasonable expectations for TAs. However, I had two extremely negative experiences where the professors were completely disorganized to the extent that as a TA I needed to try and impose structure on the course and clarify the professor's ambiguous assignments and "suggest" extensive modifications to ill conceived syllabi, which is an awkward position to be in as a TA. If the university or departments could provide guidelines on how to handle such situations it might be helpful, although I have the sense that nothing can/will be done as both professors are notorious for their disorganization and poor teaching quality within the department.

Business TA's are really exploited. Discussion sections in business are twice the size of discussion sections in any other part of the university. Worse, graduate classes in business for which you pay an extra $ 20k per year are huge compared to all other graduate classes on campus where the students don't pay extra. The building stinks. Faculty are worthless and the good ones keep leaving. Stay far away.