Community Engagement Conference Travel Award Program

The Community Engagement Conference Travel Award Program supports the community engagement scholarship and professional development of UNF faculty, staff, and affiliated faculty/staff community partners. Preference in the awarding of travel funds is given to UNF faculty, staff, and affiliated faculty/staff community partners who are traveling to disseminate community engagement scholarship (e.g., presentations/workshops, papers, and posters at professional conferences that primarily focus on community engagement).

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the academic year. All applications for conferences held during 2018-2019 must be received by March 1, 2019.

Download the application (Word).

• Eligibility

  To apply and be considered for the Community Engagement Conference Travel Award Program, applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria:

   

  • Applicant must be an UNF faculty or staff member, who is under contract during the time period of the funding award.
  • Additionally, an UNF faculty or staff member may request travel support on behalf of a community partner to co-present at a community engagement conference.
  • Applicant must have an accepted proposal to one of the following national or regional professional conferences that focuses primarily on community engagement:

                      

                       International/National

  • Community Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)  - April/May
  • Engaged Scholarship Consortium (ESC) Conference - October
  • International Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) - September/October

                      

                      Regional

  • Eastern Region Campus Compact (ERCC) Conference  - October
  • Gulf South Summit - March/April

   

  Other conferences will be considered for funding if the theme focuses on community engagement.  A list of known conferences with a focus on community engagement can be found on the Conferences and Publication Opportunities for Engaged Scholarship website. 

   

  Applicant’s accepted proposal must have a significant community engagement component.

  
  Support for any individual presentation is limited based on available funds at time of application.
  

   
• Review Criteria

  The Center for Community-Based Learning staff will review all submissions for completeness, presence of community-engagement components and soundness of budget.

   

  Applicants who are presenting a session must clearly articulate how the presentation is directly related to research on or programming focused on community engagement. Applications for attending disciplinary conferences must provide evidence that the primary focus of the majority of the conference is on community engagement in a higher education setting.

   

  Preference is given to applications for UNF faculty and staff members, as well as their affiliated community partners:

  • who are making a conference presentation or workshop on scholarship or programming models directly related to community engagement rather than a poster.
  • who are receiving an award for excellence in an activity directly related to community engagement.
  • who have a travel funding match from their home department.
• Funding Process and Availability

  Conference travel request awards will be made at a maximum of $1,250 for International/National conferences and $1,000 for Regional conferences.

   

  The Center for Community-Based Learning cannot pay for applicant’s travel directly. Instead we will be transferring the monies against the expenses by journal voucher (JV) to your budget after the travel costs and reimbursement of your travel have been paid and posted in Banner. Therefore, the applicant’s department needs to agree to initially cover and process the applicant’s travel. 

   

  After the travel is completed and processed by the applicant’s home department, the applicant’s Office Manager will need to provide us with your department’s index number and account code(s) as well as the copies of the approved travel authorization (TA), receipts and travel reimbursement (TR) so we can process the journal voucher(s).  Please note that the journal voucher process can only be done in total amounts per final line item in the approved TR. The Center will initiate the JV based on the items listed in the final TR using the configuration of items that gets closest to the maximum award without going over. Please feel free to contact the CCBL Office Manager, Kristin Quinn, at 620-3546 with questions regarding this transfer process.

   

  Travel must be completed by June 1^st  of the 2018-2019 fiscal year .

   

  In order to support as many UNF faculty and staff applicants as possible, individuals can only receive one travel award per fiscal year.

• Budget and Allowable Costs

  Requested funds may be used for travel transportation, conference registration, lodging, per diem and other associated travel costs associated with the accepted proposal.

   

• Application Submission

  Only completed applications with all required signatures will be considered.