Travel money in the college: although this money appears in our budgets under the heading “Travel,” I prefer to think of it as “Faculty development funds.” While individual departments might want to impose tighter guidelines on this funding, within the dean’s office, I encourage use of these funds in ways that contribute to the research and/or teaching success of our faculty. Thus, the dean’s office allows “Faculty Development Funds” to be used:

• To attend conferences to present papers, chair sessions, serve as respondents to sessions, work as a member of a professional division, or enhance one’s knowledge about an area;
• To travel to exhibits, performances, research facilities connected to one’s research/production, creative production, or teaching area;
• To purchase software, programs, slide collections, equipment, texts, etc., the cost of which goes beyond what we might normally expect an individual or a department to assume on his/her/its own tab;
• To pay costs associated with subventions or permissions to include copyrighted materials in one’s own soon-to-be published work;
• Other—as determined on an individual basis.

Discussed and approved at chairs’ meeting on 10/04/07