Departmental & College Support for Faculty
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Travel Funds
Department Research Fund
Faculty-Graduate Research Fund
Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund
Photocopying Funds
Long-Distance Telephone Funds
Travel Funds
The College of Arts and Sciences usually allocates travel money to the department for each tenured and tenure-track faculty member, but this year no such funds are available. You can still use your faculty research account to pay for professional travel. Faculty may also request travel funding from the department through the Department Research Fund (see below).
If you are using IU funds for travel, please consult the faculty secretary to request a travel authorization form several weeks before your trip. If you obtain your travel authorization code early, you can charge your air ticket, airport limo, and/or hotel directly to a university account. If you are driving from Bloomington, you can rent a car from Enterprise Car Rental for a reduced rate, and charge this to your account as well.
When you receive your travel reimbursement form from the IU Travel Management Office upon your return, please submit this form with receipts to the faculty secretary.
Please consult the following portion of our Web site for more details regarding faculty travel: http://www.indiana.edu/~frithome/faculty/travel.shtml.
Department Research Fund
Requests for funds may be submitted to the Chair by October 15, after which they will be evaluated by the Departmental Funds Committee. Please be specific in your request, indicating the purpose of your trip or project and what precisely the funds will be used for, as well as a specific dollar figure requested. Awards may be used for travel, supplies, equipment, and other expenses in connection with research efforts.
Faculty-Graduate Research Fund
Proposals are due to the Chair on October 15 for awards ($750 maximum) to be used during the course of the academic year for the collaborative work of a faculty member and graduate student. Requests for funds will be evaluated by the Departmental Funds Committee. Awards are intended primarily for student hourly support.
Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund
The Barr Koon Fund at the IU Foundation was established to support intellectual and cultural activities at IU related to French and Italian culture. Application is open to all members of the IU-Bloomington community, but preference is given to proposals from FRIT faculty. Since most requests are to bring guest speakers to campus, proposals are evaluated by the department’s Guest Speakers Committee, and then funding amounts are determined by the Departmental Funds Committee. A new process was instituted in Spring 2009 whereby allocations are made in the spring for the following academic year.
Photocopying Funds
The department will transfer $25 per course per semester onto the ID card of each faculty member to make photocopies for teaching. Faculty members who teach basic language classes but do not supervise such classes will receive $10 for each of those classes. Additional funds in the amount of $25 may be requested for each course with an enrollment of 50 or more students.
These funds are accessed by using an assigned code number, which for most members of the department is 5034 (Isabel will inform you of exceptions). You may add additional funds from your faculty research account as well; just e-mail your request to Isabel.
Long-Distance Telephone Use
Each faculty member with the exception of Visiting Lecturers is given a long-distance access code to make telephone calls and send faxes outside the local area. NOTE: This code may only be used for business-related calls and faxes. It may not be used for personal purposes. When you fill out a fax request form, be sure to include your long-distance access code as necessary.
Any faculty member who has used their access code to bill $10 or more to the departmental account in a given month will be asked to sign a copy of their section of our account statement verifying that all calls and/or faxes were made to conduct university business.
