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Committee Policy for
Funding Student Travel for Professional Development
(October 2004)It shall be the policy of the Criminology Committee (hereafter “Committee”) to fund currently enrolled majors (hereafter
“Applicants”) who wish to travel for their own professional development (hereafter “requested event”).
1. In order for applicants to receive partial funding for professional development from the Committee there must be funds sufficient to cover such expenses. This determination is to be made by the Committee in light of the fact that it must maintain funds for its own purposes (i.e., purchasing library materials, sponsoring on-campus speakers, conferences, etc.).
2. Applicants, if successful in their bid for funding, will only be partially funded in order to assure they have a personal investment in attending and actively participating in the requested event.
3. Using a majority vote, the Committee must approve the dispersal of funds for the purpose of supporting applicants’ participation in requested events on a student-by-student basis.
4. In order to qualify for funding the applicant must be a currently enrolled student at SMSU who has already been admitted into the CRM major with no less than nine (9) hours of CRM-designated coursework successfully completed. In addition, the applicant must have no less than a 2.5 overall grade point average at SMSU (including transfer credits) and no less than a 2.5 in their CRM major.
5. Applications (see attached) should be completed and submitted to the Chairperson of the Committee no less than four weeks before the event for which the applicant is requesting funding. Within two weeks of receiving an application, the Committee should meet and make its determination to approve or reject the application.
6. Approximately two weeks before the requested event, the successful applicants will be notified as to whether their application was approved or rejected and, if approved, the amount of funding they are to receive when they return from the requested event.
7. Funds may be requested for travel expenses, registration/tuition for conferences, purchase of materials required for the requested event and other expenses as approved by a majority vote of the Committee.
8. The successful applicant should be reimbursed as quickly as possible after returning from the requested event.
9. The successful applicant is expected to submit to the Committee Chairperson a review of and reaction to the requested event no later than one week after returning from the event. The review need not be longer than two typed pages. It should be submitted along with the Student Expenses Form.
10. It shall be the policy of the Committee to sponsor as many applicants as possible without jeopardizing its own budget. In order to achieve this goal, the Committee shall publicize widely the fact that it has funds available for funding student expenses related to professional development.
11. In order to be reimbursed for part of their expenses, students must provide proof of expenditures (cancelled receipts, used tickets, etc.). Please use the form provided (entitled Student Expenses).
