Professional Development (Travel Support) Instructions

GPSC guarantees to reimburse currently enrolled graduate and professional students $75 for attending a conference and $150 for presenting. (Up to a maximum of $150 per fiscal year and subject to available budgeted funds). But, there are other funding sources available and this is where the forms get a little tricky. Dealing with all of this different entities is difficult, but essentially there are two steps you need to take

1) See if anyone else is willing to give you money. This is done BEFORE you travel and doesn’t involve GPSC (We guarantee to fund you, see above). This is called a Request for Travel Support form. It is prepared and sent along first to your Chair, your Dean and the Grad School.

It is available through OSPA’s website.http://ospa.siu.edu/forms/index.html

N.B. Once this form is filled out you only need to give it to your chair, it will be automatically routed along to the others afterwards. Also, some departmental secretaries will fill these out for you, some won’t, ask nicely.

 

2) After you travel you have to claim all the money guaranteed to you from The Request For Travel Support form you previously sent around. It will not come to you if you don’t fill out this second form! For this second step, you need to fill out a Travel Expense Voucher. This is available from Procurement Services at the link below. Fill this out. You put under Distribution Information on page 2 all of the people who’ve guaranteed money and then at the bottom under BP put GPSC and the amount ($75 if you’re just attending/$150 if you’re presenting). Send it off to the first person on your list and it will automatically be routed along the chain to everyone on the list, ending with GPSC.

http://procurement.siu.edu/forms.html

Now, if you’ve attended a conference and just want to be funded by GPSC, simply fill out the Travel Expense Form from step 2 and only put our name on it and deliver it to the GPSC office in the student center.

Best,

Peter Lucas

Vice President of Administrative Affairs

(Please Note that this post is permanently linked under Travel Funding Instructions and Forms in the Category tag to the right.)

Screening Committee Positions

Three individuals are needed to answer the call of Provost Nicklow.  He needs graduate students who are interested in serving on a screening committee for an internal search to fill the Associate Provost for Academic Administration position.

“The screening committee will meet once to be charged by the Provost, and either one or two more times to evaluate the applications (depending on the number of applications) and to provide a short list to the Provost. The position is available October 1, so this will the committee should complete its work within a month.”

Feel free to email with further questions!

Fill out the application here:  tinyurl.com/cmbe7hu