UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THE GRADUATE OFFICE

October 3, 1938
TO MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY:

For the academic year 1938-39 the sum of $1000 is available to
help defray the traveling exnenses of members of the faculty who attend
meetings of national societies. The Graduate Research Committee has
established the following regulations for the distribution of the fund:

A. A member of the faculty who attends a meeting of a national
socicty and presents, in person, either a research paper
which will probably be published or a paper especially re-
quested by the program committce shall be eligible to apply
for a grant.

B. A member of the faculty who is president or other official
presiding officer of a national society, or of a main
section of a national society, or who is secretary of a
national society, or who is editor-in-chief of the official
journal of a national society, shall be eligible to apply
for a grant to attend one mecting of the society during the
yeare

C. The maximum of each grant shall be two cents per mile each
waye In no case shall a grant exceed the necessary cost of
transportation by railroad (not including pullman). In case
several persons travel by private automobile, the total
amount granted to all persons traveling in a single car
shall not exceed four cents ver mile each way.

Members of the faculty desiring grants from this fund must
present written requests at the Graduate Office at least one month in
advance of the trip. The application so far in advance is made necessary
by a law enacted by the last legislature requiring that approval by the
Board of Regents of each out-of-state trip be in the office of the State
Auditor before the trip is taken.

 

Applications for grants must be approved by a sub-committee of
the Graduate Research Committee. Hach application should include a
statement giving the following informations

1. Name of organization.

2. Place and date of meeting.

3. Title, brief abstract of contents and probable place
of publication of papers to be presented.

4, Official title if applying for a grant as an officer.

Before payment of an approved grant can be made, the receipts for
railroad fare both ways, or other evidence of the cost of transportation,
must be presented at the Graduate Office and the proper voucher signed there.

E.B.STOUFFER, Chairman
Graduate Research Committee

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