The Faculty Travel Fund provides support for travel by faculty members to attend professional meetings in the United States. This year support may also be requested for conferences in Mexico and Canada. The fund is administered by the Faculty Travel Committee, whose membership includes: Kerry Bechtel, Nikos Bentenitis, John Bigley, Rick Denman, Fred Sellers, and Kenny Sheppard. The following criteria for professional travel funding have been established by the Faculty Affairs Council and ratified by the faculty.

Full-time and regular part-time (persons who have taught six hours per semester and who have received three successive annual contracts) faculty members are eligible to receive support from this fund. The Faculty Travel Fund will only support travel to meetings that are sponsored by a professional association in the faculty member's area of instructional responsibility. Trips to clinics and workshops are not supported by this fund. If you have any questions regarding your eligibility, please feel free to contact the Provost's Office.

** Applicants should complete this on-line application form by Friday, April 18 for support of meetings to be held in the period from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009. Awards will be announced on or about May 1. **

The travel grants will be based upon guidelines proposed by the Faculty Affairs Council and approved by the Faculty in the meeting of March 27, 2007. These guidelines permit an eligible faculty member to apply for as many meetings as they wish subject to the following constraints:

You may apply for only one meeting as a regular participant, and the maximum grant for such a meeting will be $700.

You may apply for funding up to $1000 for one meeting as a special participant.

The total amount of funding for all trips cannot exceed $1500.

Special participants are those individuals who present a paper or give a performance, serve on a panel, or who are meeting officers whose duties require attendance. A faculty member must provide documentation of the special participation before funds will be released for travel. In the event that a faculty member is notified that she or he will not be a special participant, the faculty member must not use travel grant money for that conference.

Reimbursements for automobile travel shall not exceed the cost of standard airfare for the trip. Hotel reimbursements shall not exceed the rate at the convention hotel. Travel and lodging expenses are not reimbursed for meetings involving round-trip travel of less than 100 miles. The cost of membership dues is not a reimbursable expense.

Application form for Faculty Travel Funds for July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009.