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Production Costs: A limited amount of money is available for small grants for typing or other service connected with research and should be applied for through the Dean of Faculty’s Office.
Travel to Professional Meetings: Any full-time employee of Scripps with faculty status is eligible annually for financial support for travel to professional meetings. If additional monies are available, the Dean of the Faculty will consider requests for these monies from faculty who are active participants at meetings (i.e., presenting papers, officers of the association, chairing a session, etc.) being given first priority.
Funds are made available by staff in the Dean of Faculty’s Office. You may request an advance for your airline tickets if you wish. The following are considered legitimate travel expenses:
Airfare (or car mileage up to the amount of a coach airfare ticket)
Hotel
Food
Cab, other transportation
Conference registration, etc.
A travel expense report must be completed within sixty days of completing a trip. The report will include original receipts for all travel and lodging expenses and other expenditures of $25 or more. In lieu of actual receipts, the published IRS per diem rates can be used. A copy of the current rates, by city and country, is available in the Dean of Faculty’s office.
If you request an advance of travel funds and do not spend the entire amount requested, unspent funds must be returned to the Dean of Faculty’s Office before the end of the semester in which those funds were requested.
Administrative Assistant Services: Faculty administrative assistants are available to assist faculty with various projects. The primary duties of academic administrative assistants are:
- Preparing course and departmental/program materials which may include scanning, photocopying, and posting online,
- Assisting faculty with monitoring departmental/program budgets, including preparing reimbursements and honoraria,
- Providing assistance with faculty searches including establishing files (preferably electronic) and databases of applicants, maintaining response data, planning for candidate visits, and other search-related duties,
- Reconciling faculty College credit cards,
- Assisting with departmental/program events, including room reservations, catering, communications with guests, and publicity,
- Carrying out general office needs including collecting and distributing mail, answering phones, filing, distributing faculty schedules and office hours, and ordering supplies,
- Hiring and supervising work-study students, including monitoring and processing payroll,
- Responding independently to inquiries by students and others regarding department/program policies and guidelines,
- When time permits, the faculty administrative assistant will assist faculty members in the preparation of scholarly manuscripts for publication or delivery at professional meetings and conferences.
Student Employment: Faculty may request student assistants through the Office of Financial Aid (generally up to nine hours a week). A work-study program will be available for most students receiving financial aid.
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