Please read before applying.

·  All reimbursement will be made after travel has been completed.

·  Reimbursement for personal car use is paid according to mileage, not gas receipts. For proof of mileage, please record beginning and ending odometer readings. Reimbursement is 57.5 cents/mile. The maximum reimbursement the Collaborative will pay for personal car mileage is 500 miles or $287.50 per approved trip.

·  Any expenses incurred to extend the trip beyond or before the conference/workshop are considered personal and will not be reimbursed. Any additional airfare cost incurred due to stopovers or route modifications made for non-conference/workshop related reasons will be assumed by the applicant.

·  Expenses exceeding the grant award are the responsibility of the applicant.

If you have any questions, contact the Collaborative’s Director, Sean Connin at .


Faculty Travel Grant Application

Section I – Proposal

☒ I have read and understood the information on page 1.

Name: John Smith
Department: [Department] / Position: [Position]
Conference/Workshop Title: Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI)
Conference/Workshop - Website URL: [Website]
Please provide a short rationale for attending the workshop or conference. The rationale should include a response to the following questions:
o  Are you attending this event to develop skill in a teaching method, develop a classroom assignment, present a paper or poster, share information with your department, or for some other reason? Please explain.
o  Does the conference or workshop target aspects of instruction that are of particular interest to others in your discipline? Please explain.
o  How do you propose to share out your conference or workshop experience to benefit other faculty and staff at Trinity University?
I am applying to attend this June’s DHSI in order to take a targeted, week-long course called “Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities.” I am interested in reviewing the (hopefully relatively user-friendly) digital tools available for intensive textual analysis as well as the skills necessary to confidently use, as well as teach, those tools. I may want my course to fulfill the new Digital Literacy capacity at some point, so any new skills I can gain in the area of DH—as well as any new ideas for how to meaningfully incorporate them into assignments—will be of great value to me. While attending this conference, I also hope to meet others who are interested in these tools to begin to develop my own DH network.
Textual analysis has always been a staple in my courses, as well as my particular subfield (Biblical Studies), yet my hope is that these digital tools will open up new questions as well as new ways of approaching those questions for me and my students. In this sense, my departmental colleagues may be interested in what I learn during this course, as it might apply to their own contexts (especially those who work closely with texts too). I can also imagine sharing out my experience at DHSI through a High Noon Luncheon or, perhaps, a hands-on, skill-building workshop, wherein I review what I learned over the summer for others and give them a chance to experiment and apply these tools to their own courses and assignments.

Section II – Travel Information & Budget

Include or estimate costs for future travel activity.
Include actual dollar contributions from other sources and identify the source.

Destination: Denver, CO
Conference/Workshop Dates / From: 1/12/2015 / To: 1/13/2015
Planned Departure Date: 1/11/2015 / Planned Return Date: 1/13/2015
Budget
Have you received or will you request funds from another source? ☒ Yes ☐ No
Estimated Cost / Total Amount Requested from Collaborative / Funds from Other Sources / Source*
Plane, Car, Bus / 282.30 / 0 / 282.30 / G
Lodging / 450.00 / 450.00
Meals / 50.00 / 50.00
Registration / 200.00 / 200.00
Shuttle/Taxi - Onsite / 24.00 / 24.00
Other (explain below)
TOTAL AMOUNT / 1006.30 / 724.00 / 282.30


* Identify source of funding and elaborate in budget justification: D = Department, G = Grant, O = Other

EXPLANATION OF REQUESTED BUDGET ITEMS (REQUIRED):

Plane, Car, Bus: Nothing is being requested due to funding from another source.
Lodging: Conference hotel is $200/night +tax
Meals: Breakfast and lunch will be provided at the conference. I would only need enough funds to cover dinner on the nights of the 11th and 12th.
Registration: The conference registration fee is $200.00
Shuttle/Taxi: SuperShuttle roundtrip cost is $24.00
Other:

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