Graduate students are an integral part of the Georgia Tech community, both as students and in their role as employees. This manual provides guidance for graduate student employees, their supervisors, and administrative personnel. This manual focuses solely on students who are enrolled or employed on the Atlanta campus. The goals of this manual are to:

• Provide a cohesive and unified summary of federal and state employment laws, USG policies, and existing Georgia Tech policies as they apply to graduate student employment.
• Facilitate the smooth functioning of the graduate student-faculty supervisor relationship.
• Give clear guidelines of what is and is not allowed under current policies.
• Give an overview of relevant governing principles such as Academic Freedom, Freedom of Expression and Association, Ethics, Codes of Conduct, Intellectual Property Rights, among others.

Additional employment guidance given by hiring units is permissible but should not conflict with guidance given in this manual.