Stone Center Faculty Affairs: Post-Katrina Information
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Faculty Professional Travel Support Updates
Last Tuesday, the Stone Center administrative team had a chance to gather together in New Orleans and to meet as a unit for the first time since Katrina to discuss a wide variety of issues ranging from our Title VI grant proposal, to Spring/Lagniappe semester courses and programming, to budgets, etc.
One of the subjects we discussed was the Stone Center Faculty Professional Travel Budget. I would like you to know that the entire staff of the Stone Center was unanimous in its desire to make every effort to continue to support the research of our affiliated faculty and the dissemination of your research at learned society conferences. In fact, in order to emphasize our continued and strong commitment to the research and professional development of our affiliated faculty and to demonstrate concretely how importantly we view faculty research and professional development to our mission to maintain a vibrant and engaged intellectual academic community of Latin Americanist scholars, we decided to double our budget to support faculty professional travel requests for the current academic year.
We ask that you continue to use the current application forms, which can be downloaded off our website by clicking here, and to follow the established application guidelines with the following changes:
One of the subjects we discussed was the Stone Center Faculty Professional Travel Budget. I would like you to know that the entire staff of the Stone Center was unanimous in its desire to make every effort to continue to support the research of our affiliated faculty and the dissemination of your research at learned society conferences. In fact, in order to emphasize our continued and strong commitment to the research and professional development of our affiliated faculty and to demonstrate concretely how importantly we view faculty research and professional development to our mission to maintain a vibrant and engaged intellectual academic community of Latin Americanist scholars, we decided to double our budget to support faculty professional travel requests for the current academic year.
We ask that you continue to use the current application forms, which can be downloaded off our website by clicking here, and to follow the established application guidelines with the following changes:
(1) Instead of applying for 1/2 airfare or a 2-night per diem, you should feel free to apply for full airfare or a 2-night per diem.Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. We eagerly look forward to seeing all of you soon.
(2) You may make up to three requests for the year, but PLEASE prioritize your requests in order of importance as we expect the volume of applications this year to increase and thus our ability to fund multiple travel requests to decrease. ***Please note that professional travel requests to attend LASA this spring will be given special attention as we want to encourage a strong Tulane Latin Americanist presence at this conference.***
(3) There is a maximum limit of $700 for each request.
(4) The deadline for application is February 1, 2006; however, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible. Also, retroactive reimbursement requests for professional travel already undertaken this fall (or soon to be taken) are acceptable. Please submit your completed application form via email attachment to Jimmy Huck at jhuck@tulane.edu with a cc: to rtsclas@tulane.edu.
(5) Remember that all grants for faculty travel are made on a reimbursement basis, so please remember to keep originals of all relevant airline ticket, lodging, and meal receipts. Also, reimbursement cannot be made until sometime during the Spring '06 semester at the earliest, when we assume normal accounting procedures will once again be operational on campus.
