{"id":2277,"date":"2023-08-10T20:49:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T20:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-leadership-engagement\/?page_id=2277"},"modified":"2024-07-09T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T21:10:30","slug":"travel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/leadership-engagement\/student-organizations\/travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Organization Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student Organizations are able to request funds to travel (i.e. attend a conference, plan a service trip, etc.) through the MCSG Travel Fund. To request funds, student organizations must complete an allocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Items to be included in requests from the Travel Fund include all costs related to transportation and hotel\/lodging expenses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Funding requests for travel must be related to their chartered organizational purpose.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Note: Food, registration costs, and tickets for events while traveling are requested through the operating fund.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Travel funds must be requested through the additional allocation process for the current academic year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Funds may not be requested to pay for an event or purchase that has already taken place.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Student groups can submit funding requests for travel related to their chartered organizational purpose.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Travel Fund allocations may be requested for travel during the current academic year at any time during that academic year. These allocations are approved on a first come, first served basis and it is possible that there will not be enough money in the Travel Fund to fund allocations requested later in the academic year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Travel Fund is administered by the FAC in accordance with MCSG Bylaws and the Financial Code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>College related student travel must be pre-approved to assure that the travel plans are safe, well planned, and meet the College&#8217;s risk management guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Student travel is considered College travel if ANY of the following apply:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>College or student government funds are used to support travel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Travel for Athletics or Club sports teams.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Travel is to participate in an event on behalf of or using the name of the College.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>College vehicles are used.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For liability reasons, for ground travel College vans secured through the campus motor pool must be used and not personal vehicles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Travel must be tracked via the Travel Registration Form if any of the following apply:\u00a0\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Travel is 50 miles or more from campus.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Travel is overnight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student Organizations are able to request funds to travel (i.e. attend a conference, plan a service trip, etc.) through the MCSG Travel Fund. To request funds, student organizations must complete an allocation. College related student travel must be pre-approved to assure that the travel plans are safe, well planned, and meet the College&#8217;s risk management [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"parent":1931,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2277","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/leadership-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/leadership-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/leadership-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/leadership-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/leadership-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/leadership-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2717,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/leadership-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2277\/revisions\/2717"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/leadership-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/leadership-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}