They are used to support travel of faculty in other areas who may have had unusally high travel demand in the current year. This pooling of unused departmental funds allows for natural variability in travel demand within a department from one year to the next. All travel reimbursements must be approved by the Chair and the Associate Dean for Academic Operations. Faculty are expected to provide an estimate of expenses for a trip to their chair prior to initiating expenditures for the trip. All full-time faculty, even those on temporary contracts, are eligible for funding.
Priority is given to continuing faculty.
Faculty on sabbatical are eligible for travel funds, but if they are being replaced by a full-time person, then two persons may have need for travel without an increase in the budget. Therefore, chairs will want to be sensitive to this greater pressure on their budget. Travel for purposes of conducting research is supported by the Faculty Research Committee and not by departmental travel funds. The Office of Foundation and Government Grants is available to help you find external funding. You may want to ask colleagues or your Chair to read your proposal and provide feedback.