Date: July 1, 2007

Travel Fund For Untenured (Tenure-Track) Faculty 2007-2008

Please note: Awards will be made until funding is exhausted.

The purpose of this fund is to support attendance at scholarly/professional meetings or events of similar importance where the faculty member is beyond the first year at UB and personally presenting her or his research, scholarly, or creative activity. Faculty requesting funding for activities other than the presentation of a research paper should explain how the proposed activity is equivalent.

The fund supports travel expenses, including transportation (not to exceed coach-class airfare), registration, lodging, meals, etc. Standard university procedures concerning allowable expenses, with appropriate receipts, are to be followed. If a privately owned automobile is used for travel, reimbursement will be for mileage at the current university rate. Awards will be made until funding is exhausted.

Annual grants up to $1,000 are available to untenured (tenure-track) faculty who have no travel allowance as part of their employment contract and have no other source of support from the College of Arts and Sciences. Funding for successful applicants will be transferred to their department's account.

Proposals will be reviewed for travel that occurs between 1 July 2007 and 30 June 2008. If, after an award has been made, the presentation is not accepted, Dr. Oak is to be notified and the award canceled. Those funds will then be used for other travel grants.

The submission process begins with a brief application to the department chair (copy attached). The chair will evaluate the request, consider a commitment of departmental funds, and make a recommendation. A departmental match in full or part is encouraged since the intent of this program is to increase the support for travel available to individual faculty members, not supplant existing sources of support.

Application must precede the dates of travel and may be made at any time before 1 May 2008. Do not include original material or receipts. Awards usually will be determined within 30 days. Applications are submitted to the department chair. The department chairperson evaluates the request and then forwards it to Associate Dean Lorraine Oak, 810 Clemens Hall.

 

Application Form

The application form is available here as an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file. Download the file, print it out, complete and submit it to your departmental chair.