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Purpose: The Provost Award for Faculty Travel has been established to provide financial assistance to faculty who will be presenting scholarly/professional activities at professional conferences or meetings and to encourage continued publication of active research and support invited performances in the creative arts.

The Director of the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Research shall establish a committee from the Center's Advisory Board. The Advisory Board consists of representatives from the four Colleges, Library, and Quad Cities. The Award Committee shall evaluate and make recommendations with regard to the applications for travel fund support. The Director shall chair this committee. The committee will meet monthly while funds exist.

**Effective July 1, 2013** If an honorarium is provided, please include the amount and if any travel expenses are provided. Include a copy of the contract with your signature sheet. A presentation or performance with an honorarium over $2,000.00 is not eligible for a Provost Travel Award as sufficient funds for travel are available in the honorarium.

The following are the policies for this award:

• Awards are to support travel and registration fees for the presentation of accepted papers, invited performances or equivalent professional activity.
• Applications must be submitted at least two weeks prior to the actual presentation date, but no more than six months prior to the presentation date.
  
  The application period will last until the funds are exhausted. Faculty members are encouraged to apply early to better their chances of being approved for an award.
• To ensure adequate year-round funding, the full amount budgeted and available for this award will be split between semesters using the following structure:
  • July 1 through Dec 31 -- 45%
  • Jan 1 through June 30 -- 45%
  • Discretionary: 10% of the total budget.
• Applicant must be either a full-time Unit A or B faculty member. Additionally, department chairs are not eligible for an award.
• Maximum award for each conference is $700.
• Various weighting factors will be used to determine award recipients and amounts:
  • Tenure/Tenure-track faculty w ill be given preference over Unit B.
  • Level of conference (international, national, regional, state)
  • Prestige of presentation or performance (examples: top paper recognition, Lincoln Center Performance invitation, etc.)
  • Compliance with policy and procedures from last award (turned in copy of paper, follow through on all paperwork, following timeline, etc.)
  • Faculty may apply for multiple awards but can only be granted two awards per (fiscal) year. These must be in separate semesters. If funds are limited, faculty members who have not received an award in the past year may be given priority over those who have received an award in the past year.
  • Individual and co-presented papers and artistic performances are to be weighed equally. If co-presenters are from WIU, each co-presenter must submit an application.
• Faculty who have multiple events at a conference should submit strongest event for consideration.
• Invited presentations/performances will be given the same consideration as competitive events if of equal rigor and prestige (e.g. keynote presentation at a conference or invited performance resulting from national recognition).
• Faculty should indicate the amount of matching funds from the college and department and this amount may affect how much money is awarded through this fund. Faculty are also to state how much travel money they are eligible to receive in a year from their department and college.
• Travel awards are to be awarded during a fiscal year (July 1 through June 30). An application for an award for an event taking place during the summer that crosses fiscal years will receive funding from the fiscal year wherein the event occurs.
• An additional fund will be established to assist faculty who have had their scholarly/professional activity accepted at international forums outside North America. The Director of International Programs will provide a recommendation regarding all travel requests for international travel. The selection committee may choose to provide funding up to an additional $300 for a total of $1,000 for these international travel awards. It is expected that the department/college will match the amount awarded for international travel.