University of Missouri - Kansas City

General policies & guidelines

Through the Travel Grant program, ORS will make available institutional funds to support the presentation of research and other creative works at professional conferences. Tenured faculty, tenure track faculty, and clinical faculty employed by UMKC on a full-time basis are eligible for the ORS Travel Grant program. The intent of these grants is to encourage ongoing research, scholarship, and artistic endeavors within university sponsored disciplines by UMKC faculty.

ORS will consider applications for funds to help defray travel costs for the purpose of presenting original research at professional meetings or equivalent activities in the creative arts. ORS cannot consider applications for grants to cover travel expenses for such purposes as participation as discussant, section chairperson, general panelist, officer or attendant at professional meetings, presentation of lectures, involvement in workshops, recruitment of faculty or students, visitations at other institutions, and other activities which are not clearly related to research or the creative arts.

Travel requests to do field work or to cover expenses to and from repositories of resource materials in conjunction with a research project are not eligible for Travel Grant funds.

What type of funds will ORS match and how much?

The Office of Research Services will match the funds contributed by your Department/Division/Academic Unit. The match for domestic travel will be up to a $450.00 maximum or up to a $700.00 maximum for international travel (as funds are available) for the cost of transportation, registration fees, meals, and lodging. These funds are available for only one professional meeting per fiscal year (1 July through 30 June) for each eligible faculty member that is each faculty member is limited to onetravel grant per FY.

Domestic vs. International Travel

Will ORS match my travel if my department/division don't contribute any matching funds?

No. Matching funds (Departmentand/or Dean's Office funds) must be committed in advance by the academic unit(s) of the applicant. In the absence of special circumstances, situations in which the research will be presented by more than one UMKC faculty member, usually only one researcher's travel will be funded.

New on-line travel grant system

B. Enter your exchange username and password. (The same name and password you use to access your e-mail.)

C. Click on "Create Proposal."

D. You can save your proposal and come back to complete it at any time. (Upon your return to the travel grant system, you would access the draft of your proposal by clicking on "Edit Proposal." However, save your travel grant application every 30 mins. The program does not automatically save your application.

E. The "Personal Statement of Justification" item on the application should include an explanation of how the request for travel fits into future plans for research and extramural grant proposals.

F. The Office of Research Services will match the funds contributed by your department/division.

G. If "other" funds are committed by the faculty member, please indicate the source, such as RIF, Grant Fund, or personal funds. ORS will not match these funds.

H. Click "save" often (at the bottom of the screen).

I. Select your chair (if applicable) from the drop-down box. If your chair is not listed, please contact Megan Good (816-235-1358)

J. When finished, click "submit" (at the bottom of the screen). Faculty members can not edit their proposals after they have been submitted.

K. The electronic application form should be submitted by the faculty member and reviewed by the Chair (if applicable) and Dean no later than 1 week prior to the applicant's anticipated departure date.

L. Requests for retroactive travel grants will not be reviewed or funded.

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