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===Professional Development Accounts===
===Professional Development Accounts===
<p style="margin-bottom:15px;">Professional development accounts are established at the request of individual faculty to hold funds generated by supplemental compensation, faculty clinical practice, consultations, or other revenue earnings within the faculty role. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:15px;">Expenditures from professional development funds are subject to University and State regulations.  These funds are used for professional activities and not personal use. Examples of appropriate expenses are:</p>
<ul style="margin-bottom:15px;">
<li>Travel to professional conferences</li>
<li>Membership in professional organizations</li>
<li>Supplies/services to promote professional activities (e.g., publications, printing of presentation materials, editing of manuscripts)</li>
<li>Equipment to promote professional development (e.g., computer hardware/software, personal data devices).  NOTE:  all equipment purchased with professional development funding is the property of the University</li>
<li>Salary and benefit costs for support personnel (e.g., graduate assistant, transcriptionist, hourly worker for research data entry)</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-bottom:15px;">Examples of disallowed expenditures include:</p>
<ul style="margin-bottom:15px;">
<li>Office decoration/artwork</li>
<li>Flowers</li>
<li>Alcoholic beverages</li>
<li>Membership in organizations not related to the faculty role</li>
<li>Equipment for personal/home use (unless such reverts back to the University once the project is completed)</li>
</ul>
===Faculty Development Supported by Department/Division===
===Faculty Development Supported by Department/Division===
===Summer Salary===
===Summer Salary===
===Budget Process===
===Budget Process===