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).
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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.
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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.
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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 1st of the 2018-2019 fiscal year
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In
order to support as many UNF faculty and staff applicants as possible, individuals can only receive one travel award per
fiscal year.
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Requested funds may be used for
travel transportation, conference registration, lodging, per diem and other associated
travel costs associated with the accepted proposal.
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Only completed applications with
all required signatures will be considered.
