Attn Faculty: Apply for LAs for Spring 2026

We are now accepting course proposals to work with Learning Assistants (LAs) in Spring 2026!  LAs are undergraduates who work in College of Science courses to facilitate student learning in a variety of settings.  All first-time LAs participate in a weekly pedagogy seminar, and all LAs meet regularly with course faculty to prepare for the upcoming content in the course and discuss how everything is going with the students.   

The deadline for faculty to apply to have LAs in their courses is Friday, October 24, 2025. After that, if your proposal is approved, students will be able to apply directly to your course, and you can interview and select the LAs for your course.  Funded course proposals will be decided, and the student application will open, on or around November 4.  If you know students who would be great LAs, please encourage them to apply!  Remember to think broadly about the students you encourage to be LAs: think of those who have done well in the class, those who seem to work well with and lead others, those who may be quiet but have an assuring nature about them, and those who have struggled but then have found a way to succeed. 

To submit a course proposal, go to the Learning Assistant Alliance site and click on “LA Campus”. If you already have an account from a previous semester, you can still log in with this account; otherwise you can create a new account.  Click on the “Spring 2026” menu in the left column, and click on “Start New Proposal”.  Please be sure to coordinate with others in your department as you create your application; we want to be sure that we are not reviewing duplicate applications for the same course (e.g., you create an application for your course AND the course coordinator for the course also includes a request to support LAs for you). You’ll also get to write a “job description” for prospective LAs. Please make sure that your recruitment message to prospective LAs includes everything they need to know to make an informed decision about whether to apply to your course, including whether the course is face-to-face or online (or hybrid), and what times they will need to be available. If you don't know all of this information yet, you can say that too.  More detailed documentation about preparing your proposal in LA Campus can be found here. 

If you previously submitted a proposal for Spring 2021 or later, you should be able to reuse it (and make edits as appropriate).  Please confirm that all the information is still accurate before submitting your proposal (including days/times, expected number of students, which components of the course are online vs. face-to-face, etc.). 

Please share this with any other colleagues (in your department, or elsewhere in COS) who might be interested in working with LAs.   

Please feel free to email me at bdreyfu2@gmu.edu if you have any questions.