Each fiscal year (July 1 - June 30) full-time faculty members receive a professional allowance from the departmental operating budget (OOE). The professional allowance is intended to permit faculty, within the limits of an amount established by the chairperson, to pay job-related expenses at their own discretion.
The department chairperson determines the amount of the faculty professional allowance each year, based on an assessment of the Department's overall budgetary condition and needs. The department secretary maintains records of each faculty member's expenditures.
The following guidelines govern the faculty member's management of her/his professional allowance:
- Faculty use their professional allowances to pay for instructional materials, videos, photocopying, duplicating, in state professional travel, library charges, books, long distance telephone calls, office furnishings, office supplies not ordinarily provided by the Department, etc.
- Faculty spend their professional allowances first. The chairperson considers requests for additional expenditures on a case by case basis.
- Any professional allowance balances not encumbered by June 1 will revert to the general department OOE.
