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In special cases such as duet performances this limitation may be waived by the faculty
committee, but it is the responsibility of the applicants in such cases to provide a clear
and reasonable written explanation for the waiver.
The Faculty Travel Grant funds will support an individual's costs for only one meeting or
event in a single academic year. Each faculty member is limited to making only one
application for the Faculty Travel Grant. In certain circumstances an individual may
attend two meetings on a single excursion. It is the applicant's responsibility to decide
the meeting for which support will be requested.
Once an application has been approved, no substitutions will be allowed; if an individual
wishes to use the program’s funds to support a presentation other than the one for
which the original application was submitted, he/she must submit an entirely new
application for the alternative event prior to the application deadline.
Budget limitations in any academic year may require more stringent criteria for support.
The Program may give priority to applicants who have not recently received this
support. The applicant must list the last three academic years in which he/she has
received this support. The administrators of the travel grant may prorate each approved
applicant's request based on the total funds requested and the amount of funds
available.
Types of Meetings For Which Support Is Available
The Faculty Travel Grant funds will support travel to present an individual's work at a
variety of venues provided that the venue is a regularly scheduled location, and the
event is one of a national, regional, or international scope. These venues include
regular or annual meetings of a national (US or another country's national society) or
international professional society; quadrennial (or otherwise periodically occurring)
international congresses that are sponsored by a number of national professional
societies. Professional societies are usually defined as those that collect dues, have
elected officers, develop rules and regulations, sets guidelines, and may have published
journals or other outlets for scholarly work. These venues also are used regularly for
meetings sponsored by a government agency or industrial society, meetings that are of
an academic nature and take place annually or biennially; juried competitions of a
national or international scope that are held regularly; regular conferences on specified
topics at which attendance is by invitation and is considered a prestigious
accomplishment; and invited performances at regularly occurring meetings/festivals.
In general, the committee criteria specify that travel funds will be awarded to full time
tenured or tenure-track faculty presenting peer-reviewed academic research papers at
regional, national or international conferences. By definition, these papers will not
include a "response," or roundtable paper.
The Faculty Travel funds will support travel to present a poster only if all of the following
criteria are fulfilled: (a) the meeting is of one of the types described above; (b) the