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Travel Funds Application

The Conference Travel Fund prioritizes travel for events that will provide L&C students with significant opportunity to network professionally or for formal/informal interviewing opportunities.

Instructions: Requests should be made well in advance of travel. Please allow up to 4 weeks for a decision regarding your application. Please submit your travel reimbursement application to sbatreasurer@lclark.edu.

Please respond to the questions below. Your answers should be complete, however please limit your application to no more than 2 pages. Missing information will delay your application.

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Name

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Email address

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Name of event

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Location of event

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Dates of event (including travel days)

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Number of students who will be traveling?

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What are your total anticipated travel costs for transportation?

Airfare, train or bus tickets, taxi/Uber/Lyft

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What are your total anticipated travel costs for lodging?

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What is the total anticipated cost of the registration fee?

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What organization(s) are the primary sponsors of the event you are attending?

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Are there additional conference fees?

For instance dinners, ticketed events, or CLEs

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What measures have you taken to defray costs?

For example–shared lodging, carpooling with rental cars, group rates on airfare

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If this is a conference, have you requested a scholarship as a student attendee?

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How do you believe this travel will be of benefit to you?

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How do you believe this travel could benefit other students or a student organization at the law school?

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If you have requested travel funding from other sources, how much funding have you requested?

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If you have requested travel funding from other sources, what is the expected date of a response?

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If you have NOT requested travel funding from other sources, please explain why.

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Does the event include opportunities for formal interviews?

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If the event includes opportunities for formal interviews, will you be participating in the formal interview program?

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Does the event include opportunities for informational interviewing?

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If the event includes opportunities for informational interviewing, how will you plan to set up or schedule informational interviews while in attendance?

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Are there opportunities for professional networking? If so, include your explanation of whether it is formal or informal.

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What is the total amount of funding you are seeking from the SBA’s Travel Fund?

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Have you attended the conference in previous years?

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Have you previously benefited from the use of SBA funds to attend any conference in this or previous academic years?

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In addition to money from the Conference Travel Fund, you may request money from a fund overseen by the SBA Subcommittee for Equity & Inclusion, who approves or denies such requests by a majority vote. If you would like your application to be considered for additional funds from the SBA Subcommittee for Equity & Inclusion, please explain briefly how your travel supports school values of equity and inclusion. With questions about this process, you may contact the SBA Vice-President of Equity & Inclusion at equity.sba@lclark.edu.

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