Dear colleagues,
As was shared at the faculty meeting yesterday, our staff reductions as part of the austerity Cornell measures are impacting our ability to continue providing travel booking support to our research and teaching community. This is not a service change we undertake lightly: we know the pace of research work and collaborations often necessitate short timelines between a decision to attend a conference/meeting/workshop and travel booking and we're also aware that this change will disproportionately impact our grad student community as travel and lodging costs continue to increase. The best we're able to do at this point is encourage folks to request travel advances as far in advance as is feasible and apply for T&M cards where appropriate. We will continue to advocate for the needs of all our constituents to receive support with the operational and administrative logistics required to fulfill their research and teaching work.
My message below has instructions for impacted populations to request travel advances, or in the case of postdocs/visiting scientists/research associates, instructions on how to request a travel and meal card; grad student Travel and Meal cards have additional requirements.
Effective immediately, grad students, postdocs, visiting scientists, research associates, other research staff or anyone traveling on Cornell business who doesn't have or is ineligible for a T&M card, should request a travel advance from the SSC:
We will revise this practice when our staffing levels improve.
Best,
Trisica
Trisica Munroe
Director of Administration
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
133 Upson Hall, Suite 130
607.255.5949
Tdm68@cornell.edu
Mae.cornell.edu
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