Role and Mission
Location and Contact Information
Oversight
Disability Accommodation

Role and Mission

The Graduate Student Instructor Teaching & Resource Center is an academic unit of the Graduate Division that prepares graduate students for teaching undergraduates at UC Berkeley and for the teaching they will do in future academic and nonacademic careers. We also work closely with faculty and departments to assist them in the mentoring and teaching preparation they offer graduate students. We are guided in our work by the Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs, a sub-committee of the Academic Senate’s Graduate Council that includes both faculty and graduate student members.

We provide conferences, workshops, seminars, confidential consultations, classroom observations (with or without video-recording), grants, awards, an online teaching guide, and a robust web-based course on professional standards and ethics in teaching. We also provide language testing and specialized courses for current and prospective international GSIs at UC Berkeley. We offer a Certificate Program in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, which provides evidence of GSIs’ development activities as instructors for advanced graduate students we offer, in collaboration with the Graduate Division’s Academic Services unit, the Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty and the SMART program. For faculty who teach with GSIs we offer a seminar on Teaching with GSIs.

Location and Contact Information

GSI Teaching & Resource Center
301 Sproul Hall #5900
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-5900

gsi@berkeley.edu
510-642-4456
Office Hours 9am–12pm, 1–4pm

Oversight

The GSI Center is overseen by the Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division and guided by the Faculty Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs, a subcommittee of the Academic Senate’s Graduate Council.

2020 – 2021 members of the Faculty Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs

Name	Department	Email
Mary Wildermuth, Committee Chair	Plant & Microbial Biology	mwildermuth@berkeley.edu
Gail Brager, Graduate Division Associate Dean	Architecture	gbrager@berkeley.edu
Tina Chow	Civil & Environmental Engineering	tinakc@berkeley.edu
Cati de los Ríos	Education	cdelosrios@berkeley.edu
Jun Sunseri	Anthropology	jsunseri@berkeley.edu
Michelle Wilkerson, Graduate Council Liaison	Education	mwilkers@berkeley.edu
Chenyu Zhang, Graduate Student Member	Molecular & Cell Biology	chenyu_zhang@berkeley.edu

Disability Accommodation

Conference and Workshop Registration
Pre-registration for most of our events is set up 24/7 on web-based forms. However, if you are unable to register using these forms, please call us by phone at 510-642-4456 during regular hours or send us an email message at gsi@berkeley.edu.

Disability Accommodations for Events
If you require accommodations to take part in one of our events, please contact the GSI Teaching & Resource Center at 510-642-4456 during regular hours or send us an email message at gsi@berkeley.edu ten days prior to the event.