Applicant Eligibility

The Scholars' Travel Fund support is limited to full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty members, full-time lecturers, University High School faculty members, and Legacy Research Scholars in targeted units.

Funding is not available for emeritus/ae faculty or rehired retirees.

The number of trips a faculty member is eligible to receive support for during the fiscal year is dependent upon their rank. Each conference counts as one trip in the year in which application is made, i.e., regardless of when the conference is held.

Full professors, associate professors, and lecturers are eligible to receive one trip per fiscal year. The trip may be to a domestic or foreign destination.

Assistant professors are eligible to receive two trips per fiscal year. One of the trips may be to a foreign destination.

Retroactive funding will NOT be considered. The dates of travel must occur after the results release date. The release date is the second Friday after the deadline date. (i.e. Deadline date of April 2, 2012; results release date of April 13, 2012.) Funding to a conference will be provided for up to three presenters of the same paper. Each presenter must submit a separate application.

Eligible Departments

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Support Available

Travel costs for domestic and international destinations are budgeted according to zones (5 for domestic, 6 for international). Rates are reviewed and adjusted annually to account for cost increases.

All travel outside the United States will be considered foreign travel. A list of the Travel Award amounts for various destinations can be viewed here.STF awards may be used for airfare, reimbursement of automobile mileage, conference registration fees, taxis, trains, busses, subways, business telephone calls, business expenses, toll road charges, parking charges, meals, and lodging in accordance with University and State policies. Payment of association dues cannot be supported by STF funds.

Award Administration Information

The departmental business officers will be responsible for processing the necessary paperwork, assuring that all University policies for travel reimbursement are followed, and maintaining adequate documentation of expenditures awarded by the STF.

Departmental business officers will also be responsible for entering into the STF Online that the trip was taken (or not used) and the total cost of trip and the CFOP which is to be reimbursed. The VCRBO will then process the budget transfers in that month's business transactions.

For questions regarding award reimbursements and/or administration contact:
Gloria Chattman - gawright@illinois.edu, 217-244-4033