Frequently Asked Questions
General Rules for Applications
Minimum Requirements:
- Faculty should academically benefit from the activity
- USF should benefit from the activity
- Transparency in the application documents:
- Provide proof/justification for your request. Any kind of documentation that is verifiable is okay.
Examples:
- Provide quotes (estimates are okay, too)
- Provide a description of the event and include a link to the event
- Provide an email from the librarian
USF uses the following fiscal year for accounting and budgeting purposes
The fiscal year for 2022-23 starts July 1st, 2022, and ends on June 30th, 2023.
The rule of the process for events that have a specific date range:
The application must be completed;
- Before the event date, AND
- Before the predetermined FPDC meeting date for that cycle so that FPDC has enough time to process and decide on the application
Applicant can use those funds till the end of the fiscal year, which is June 30th,
2023, at this time.
Plan ahead!
- Support for attending a virtual conference or travel to a conference that follows the current guidelines
- Research support
- Materials for teaching activities or course development
- Attending training seminars for research or teaching skills
- Application for funding retrospective (backdated) events/activities
- Use of FPDC funds for another activity that is not described in the original application
- Stipends for students
- Mechanical Turk (MTurk)
- Giftcards
- Applications without price quotes
- Vague applications
- Research-related applications that require IRB approval but without any statement about the status of the IRB approval
- Applications submitted very close to the date of leaving your job at USF (Evaluation can be done to determine whether USF will benefit from this activity or not)