All graduate students who are in good standing have access to a travel budget, as stipulated in their offer letter. You should prioritize conferences that are most important to your professional development and job placement. Requests connected to conference paper presentations will be given priority. All requests are subject to the approval of the DGS.
The expenditures of this funding are based on the following spending limits:
Conferences in the US: up to $750
International conferences: up to $1,500
You may request additional funding if you are attending a philosophy summer institute, such as the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, the Frankfurt School Summer Institute, or the Caribbean Philosophical Association Summer School.
We expect that you will spread your travel funding over your five years in the program. The department budget will not permit you to spend all of your funding in a single year.
Procedure for Graduate Student Travel Reimbursement
Travel reimbursements are processed by the Sparks Region Finance Office for the College of the Liberal Arts in 234 Sparks Building. The Finance Office will reimburse you only for the amount the Philosophy Department has approved for your travel. You may use the approved amount for all travel to and from the conference (airfare and/or ground transportation), housing, and meals. However, for meals, the College allots a per diem; you may ask for the per diem if the travel and hotel expenses have not exhausted the approved amount for your travel. To receive your reimbursement in a timely fashion, please submit your travel and hotel receipts and your request for the meal per diem (do not submit restaurant receipts) to 234 Sparks Building as soon as possible after your travel. The reimbursement usually takes about two weeks and will appear as a direct deposit to your checking account.
Please continue to the Graduate Travel Request Form. In completing the form, it is fine to provide estimates of costs obtained, for example, by consulting current airfares and hotel costs on booking sites (e.g., Kayak, Expedia, etc.)