Trips C1.8.1 Professional Meetings Faculty members are encouraged to affiliate with professional organizations and societies that further their academic interests. Early in the academic year, faculty members seeking support for such activities should inform their Department Chairperson of anticipated plans for attendance at meetings. Students are urged to participate but are not required to do so. Arrangements for such field trips are to be approved by the office of Academic Affairs as early in the semester as possible. Field trips are not permitted during the last week of classes.
Instructors are responsible for making arrangements for their other classes during their absence.
The Expense Statement form must be submitted to the Department Chairperson for approval. The Chairperson then forwards it to the Dean of Academic Affairs for approval before it is returned to the Business Office. The faculty member will be reimbursed by check at the end of the next pay period. Those faculty members who participate in a professional meetings as a convener or as a presenter of a paper at a meeting can request additional funds should the cost exceed the normally budgeted amount. Such requests would have to be approved by the Department Chairperson and the Dean of Academic Affairs.