Travel Awards Committee

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BACKGROUND

The Travel Awards Committee is a standing committee of the Graduate Student Council.  The Travel Awards Committee is formed each year to oversee the process and appropriation of granting travel awards to students.  In the 2003-04 academic year, President Upham approved our first merit based system for awarding student travel awards.  However, as it was in its first year, we will take this year to improve upon that foundation to make it more applicable for all schools by ensuring that all members of the Council are active participants in this committee to ensure fairness and equality of travel awards among all schools and departments.  Additionally, all students are able to participate in creating the guidelines and scoring system, and this is highly encouraged if their school does not have an active representative.  Because the applications are confidential, only GSC members will participate in scoring each application.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Name	Title

COMMITTEE ROLES

• Create or revise the Travel Award Guidelines, Application and scoring system as needed.
  
• Encourage students to apply for Travel Awards.
• Notify students of the application deadline during each window.
• Collect, organize and record receipt of Travel Award Applications
• Rate all Travel Award Applications according to set scoring system and appropriate funding accordingly.

KEY ADMINISTRATORS ON THIS ISSUE

• Robert Klitgaard - President
• James Whitaker - Dean of Students