Support for faculty
professional travel is essential to maintaining the scholarly
productivity of our university. It is a critical element
in hiring new faculty, as well as in supporting more senior
researchers. As the number of active faculty scholars has
increased each year with additional hiring, this funding
becomes ever more important. Many colleges must supplement
this RPP allocation with their own funds to provide partial
travel support to tenure/tenure track faculty to give one
presentation/year at a professional conference. The division
requests an augmentation of $50,000 to the president’s
request for a total of $200,000.