Notebooks, photocopying, and other materials required for course work are personal expenses. Laboratory supplies for research may be purchased through your advisor's project account, and, of course, requires permission by your advisor. Travel authorization forms must be completed for each trip farther than 50 miles outside of the North Dakota border. A travel expense voucher is completed after returning from the trip and turned in to the PLSC main office at the end of each month you traveled. Receipts are required for lodging and most other special items except food.
Reimbursement usually is made by check within two weeks after the travel voucher is submitted.
Fargo, Moorhead, West Fargo, Casselton, Prosper, Absaraka and Northwest 22 are considered normal place of employment and, therefore, expense vouchers are not submitted for time spent at these nearby locations. All travel funds for GRAs and GRFs to regional or national meetings must be from Project Grant or Gift sources. Travel is dependent upon approval of NDSU administration. Travel policy interpretation or approval may vary at times, depending on the number of travel requests to a single meeting or conference, availability of funds, justification for attending, etc. Funds must come from Grant or Gift money.