GRAB Student Conference Travel Fund
Application Guidelines
EAHR and GRAB want to encourage graduate students in the department to pursue and present scholarly work in conferences. Scholarship funds have been established to help students for this purpose.
Travel Funds:
Conference travel funds will be awarded on a competitive basis to applicants only after they have submitted the online application form and emailed GRAB the required supporting documents.
Funding Procedure:
GRAB has travel funds available for graduate students who have received acceptance letters for conferences. The total travel fund provided to GRAB from EAHR has been equally divided between the four program areas: K-12, EHRD, Higher Ed., and Adult Ed. Each program area has been allotted $2,250 for the academic school year. The maximum fund per applicant is $500.As funds are limited, applicants may only be funded once per academic school year. In addition, only one application per paper/poster will be considered. Acceptance letter from the conference must be emailed to GRAB with application or it will not be considered (scanned and electronic copies only).
Your complete application must be received within 14 days after receipt of conference acceptance letter.
Criteria:
Application packets for the travel fund will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
- Type of presentation (paper/poster/other)
- Type of conference (major conference in field, other conferences)
- Previous funding from GRAB
- Priority will be given to first-time conference presenters
Documentation after Approval
Please note you are required to provide your original receipts, airline tickets, and other travel documents upon return from the conference travel. If you fail to do so, you will not be reimbursed any money even if you are approved, and you will not be eligible for any further funding from GRAB or EAHR. A brief letter (not to exceed 500 typed words) MUST be included with the materials listed above explaining how your development and the mission of the EAHR Department were furthered by attending and presenting at this particular conference. The relevance of your attending and presenting at this conference should be made clear in your letter. Turn in all these documents in a single, complete packet to Susan Sussano within 10 days of returning from your conference.
Susan Sassano
EAHR, Texas A&M Unversity
511 Harrington Tower, 4226 TAM U
College Station, TX 77843-4226
E-mail: ssassano@tamu.edu
GRAB Co-Treasuruers:
Rhonda Fowler, rfowler@tamu.edu or
Mattyna Stephens, secondhandsofist@yahoo.com
GRAB Board: officers@grab.tamu.edu