• Job Description

  Req#: 506978

  Department Overview:	The La Follette School is highly ranked among graduate degree public policy programs and enjoys a worldwide reputation for research and teaching.
  Anticipated Start Date:	Start of fall semester of the 2024-2025 Academic Year
  Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):	End of the Fall Semester of the 20242025 Academic Year
  Remote Work Eligibility Detail:	Partially Remote
  Anticipated Hours Per Week:	20
  Schedule:	20 hours per week
  Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:	$13,253.00 (semester for a 50% appointment)
  Number of Positions:	1
  Qualifications:	The La Follette School of Public Affairs evaluates applicants for teaching assistantships by considering a variety of factors. Among these factors are the following: 1. Experience in and commitment to microeconomics through research or previous coursework. Knowledge of the subject should overlap with the specific emphasis and content areas of the course. 2. Evidence of experience in teaching – either from prior teaching experience or from qualities that demonstrate intelligence and the ability to communicate material clearly, facilitate discussion, and stimulate student interest (previous teaching experience in a course of microeconomics or applied microeconomics preferred). 3. A high level of competence in the applicant’s home discipline. 4. Current enrollment in or acceptance to a UW-Madison doctoral program, economics or agricultural & applied economics strongly preferred. Currently enrolled students must be in good standing.
  Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:	Economics, teaching,
  Position Summary/Job Duties:	The La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has an opening for a teaching assistant for fall semester of the 2024-25 academic year in the following course: PA 880: Microeconomic Policy Analysis Course Description: This course is designed primarily as a core course for graduate students in the Master of Public Affairs (MPA) or Master of International Public Affairs (MIPA) programs. The course emphasizes the nature of decision-making by consumers, firms, and governments, and the effect of these decisions on the allocation of resources--land, labor and capital. A central issue is to establish the meaning of "efficiency" in resource allocation, and to understand what is necessary if the resources in the economy are to be allocated efficiently. The course will investigate the conditions under which a market economy is able to secure an efficient allocation of society’s resources and explore how the public sector has an important role to play in a market economy like that of the US. The role of the public sector is of central concern if private markets fail. The course will study the ways in which private market failure exists, and the possible response of government to this failure. The course objectives include the assessment of the effectiveness of public policy taken to improve economic efficiency and enhance equity in income distribution. (Syllabus for the Fall 2023 course is available at https://lafollette.wisc.edu/course/pa-880-microeconomic-policy-analysis/)
  Physical Demands:	None
  Institutional Statements:	Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce. Institutional Statement on Diversity: Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals. The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world. For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu Accommodation Statement: If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/

• About the company

  The University of Wisconsin is a top-ranked research institution located in Madison, Wisconsin, providing exceptional education opportunities to undergraduates, graduate and professional students.

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