The professional allowance is intended to permit faculty, within the limits of an amount established by the chairperson, to pay job-related expenses at their own discretion. The department chairperson determines the amount of the faculty professional allowance each year, based on an assessment of the Department's overall budgetary condition and needs. The department secretary maintains records of each faculty member's expenditures.
Faculty spend their professional allowances first.
The chairperson considers requests for additional expenditures on a case by case basis.