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TRAVEL SUPPORT COMMITTEE

2007-2009
Gannett, Lisa, Chair
Benson, Keith
Clarke, Ellen
Garcia, Vivette
Goodman-Wilson, Don
Zimmeran, Katie

The Travel Support Committee is chaired by the Treasurer. This committee is charged with administering travel support for ISHPSSB meetings. This includes advertising travel support to ISHPSSB members, collecting and reviewing applications for support, making award decisions, disbursing funds, and maintaining accurate records of these proceedings.

Relevant Bylaws
ARTICLE XII — STUDENT ASSISTANCE
The Council of The Society shall have the authority, but is not required, to expend funds to or for the benefit of worthy and needy students for the purpose of assisting such students in meeting the costs of transportation, meals, and lodging in attending the educational and scientific activities conducted by the Corporation, provided that such expenditures remain an insubstantial portion of the Corporation's budget. In addition to the provisions of Article XI above, the Corporation shall in no way discriminate against any student in the expenditure of such funds because the student is not a Member of The Society.

Graduate Student Travel Policy
Adopted 2002

In general, ISHPSSB endorses a graduate student travel policy that provides at least partial funding for all eligible graduate students, rather than full funding for only a few graduate students. To implement this policy, the following criteria should be considered in making travel awards.

1. The first priority is to fund students presenting papers at the biennial conference or participating in ISHPSSB governance.
2. The second priority is to provide funding for students who have never received previous funding.
3. The third priority is to provide funding for students who did not receive funding at the previous ISHPSSB meeting.

The exact amount of funding provided by ISHPSSB, recognizing that the Society cannot provide complete funding for all graduate students, shall be calculated by the ISHPSSB treasurer with the following criteria as guidelines.

• total amount of ISHPSSB funding available
• relative cost of travel from home to site of meeting
• ability of participant to provide additional resources for travel (allowance for distinctive differences in standards of living)

Additionally, all graduate students will be expected to supplement the travel award at a comparable level regardless of funding provided by ISHPSSB. Thus, if travel costs and awards from Europe to the conference site are $750, while travel costs and awards from the US are $450, the students in both cases will be expected to bear an equivalent share of the additional expenses (for example, if additional expenses amount to $150, in both cases the students will be expected to assume those charges).

2003 Student Travel Report

Keith Benson reported that student travel requests for ISHPSSB meetings in the past have come from 14-16 students, and have generally all been funded. For the Vienna meeting, the treasurer received 87 requests, 62 of them coming by May 1, 2003.

2001 Student Travel Report

Keith Benson (treasurer) announced that every graduate student requesting travel funds was granted.

1997 Student Travel Report

Twenty-three students applied for student travel awards for attendance at the Seattle meeting. The member contributions of $870 plus $1800 from the society general funds were awarded to student applicants.

1995 Student Travel Report

Forty-four students and independent scholars applied to the Society for travel support to attend the 1995 meeting. Forty awards were made; 28 of these were funded from $15000 awarded to the Society by the NSF and 12 from the ISHPSSB travel fund.