Academic Catalog

2026-2027

II.Professional Development Opportunities: C. Professional Travel Policy

  1. Full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty will use their PD Accounts to fund professional travel.
  2. The Faculty Professional Development Airline Travel (PDAT) Fund serves to cover airline-related expenses for any faculty travel that is related to professional development (e.g. attending professional conferences, research site visits, visits to collaborators, etc.), which would normally be covered by the faculty member's Professional Development (PD) account.  Effective 7/2/2023, this fund is available for faculty who have a standard $3,000/year PD account (or Michele Myers account, for those in their first three years of a tenure-track appointment).  Full guidelines for this funding can be found on MyDenison.
  3. Other full-time faculty can be reimbursed up to $1,300 per academic year for travel to a professional conference to deliver a paper. Prior approval from the Senior Associate Provost (cc'ing the Academic Operations Coordinator) is required.
  4. Continuing part-time faculty should make individual requests to the Senior Associate Provost (cc'ing the Academic Operations Coordinator) for funding for travel to professional conferences to deliver a paper.
  5. There are two options for accounting for food costs on the travel report form: 1) submit a per diem of $39 per day without receipts, or 2) enter the exact amount for the meals on the travel report form and include the receipts. The maximum daily reimbursement for food with receipts is $75.
  6. An additional $50 per day is available for child care above regular child care expenses when presenting at conferences. 
  7. The Denison credit card is the preferred method of payment for all travel expenses and conference registration fees.

Under special circumstances travel advances can be granted through a Workday process. Consult with the Dean of the Faculty for more details.