Faculty Conference Travel
All full-time faculty-line positions (tenured and tenure-track faculty, lecturers, Riley Scholars, and yearlong visiting faculty) are eligible for the Dean of the Faculty Conference Grant to fund travel to attend and present at one in-person conference or to fund registration for a virtual conference. Please read these instructions carefully as policy details may have changed since you last used this grant program. The memo applies to the funding cycle from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026.
In person conferences:
The award is up to $1,600 per academic year when the grant is to support presentation of the applicant’s original research, scholarship, or creative effort at one recognized organized conference or professional meeting. The presentation is often in the form of a reading, presentation, panel, poster, screening, but can vary with field. Presentation includes being the organizer/chair of a session or being an officer of the academic organization who is convening the meeting if the organization would otherwise have not covered your cost of attendance. See Pilot Program #3 below for a 2-year program to provide conditional additional support for high-cost conferences.
The award is up to $750 for attending a meeting when one is not a presenting member. Non-presenting means one is just attending.
Virtual conferences:
The award is up to $600 for presenting at a virtual conference, and up to $250 for attending as a non-presenter at a virtual conference.
Eligible expenses
In-person conferences: The award includes funding for business expenses for in-person conferences for lodging, meals for the faculty member (not their family and partners), air (economy only, not premium economy or above) and ground transportation for the faculty member, and registration. These are expenses that are reimbursed as business-expenses and are governed by our .
Virtual conferences: The award covers registration fees for the virtual conference.
In no case can the award exceed the cost of travel or be used for funding ineligible expenses.
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